Dave Coulier
David Livingston/Getty ImagesFull house star Dave Coulier shared a candid update regarding his ongoing cancer treatment.
“Side effects have side effects,” Coulier, 65, said on the latest episode of his show “Full House Rewind” podcast. published on Friday, January 10. “And then you take medicine to suppress this and this and that. So it’s a constant cocktail where your body is in fight or flight mode and you’re just trying to adjust to, ‘Okay, how do I adjust to the steroids? How do I adjust to the chemo cocktail?’”
Coulier went on to say that his body is in a “constant battle.”
“It’s a bit of an internal battle,” he continued.
In November 2024, the actor revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In an interview with PeopleCoulier explained that he first received his diagnosis in October of that year after experiencing an upper respiratory infection that resulted in severe swelling of his lymph nodes.
As a result, Coulier underwent PET and CT scans, as well as a biopsy.
“Three days later, the doctors called me again and said, ‘We wish we had better news for you, but you have non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and it’s called B-cell and it’s very aggressive,'” Coulier told the newspaper at the time. . “I went from ‘I’ve got a bit of a cold’ to ‘I have cancer’ and it was pretty devastating. This was a really fast roller coaster ride.”
According to Mayo Clinic.
After going public with his diagnosis, Coulier explained that he and his wife Melissa Bring he relied on the advice of friends in the medical field to make “a very specific plan on how to treat” his aggressive form of cancer.
“It was really a conscious decision that I was going to meet this major and I want people to know that this is my life,” Coulier explained in a November 2024 episode of his podcast after revealing the diagnosis. »I won’t try to hide anything. I’d rather talk about it and open up a discussion and inspire people.”
On Friday’s episode of his podcast, Coulier revealed that since sharing his diagnosis, he’s “heard from so many people who have been affected by cancer in their lives.”
“I think the words of encouragement really helped people,” he said. “For me, it’s worth the journey through all of this. Just being able to alert people that it’s OK to go for a colonoscopy or early screenings or mammograms, it’s really worth it.”