Dave Coulier Gives Cancer Candid Update: 'In Fight or Flight Mode'

Full house star Dave Coulier shared a candid update about his ongoing cancer treatment.

“Bad results have bad results,” said Coulier, 65, in the latest episode of his podcast “Full House Rewind” published on Friday, January 10. So it's this constant cocktail where your body is in fight or flight mode and you're just trying to adapt to , 'Okay, how do I get used to steroids? How do I adapt to the chemo cocktail?'”

Coulier went on to say that his body is “in constant battle.”

“It's a little internal battle,” he continued.

In November 2024, the actor revealed that he was diagnosed with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In interview no PeopleCoulier explained that he first received his diagnosis in October of that year after contracting a virus that led to severe swelling of the lymph nodes.

As a result, Coulier underwent a PET and CT scan and a biopsy.

“Three days later, my doctors called me and said, 'We wish we had better news, but you have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and it's called B cell and it's very aggressive,'” Coulier told the outlet at the time. “I went from, 'I have a slight headache' to him, 'I have cancer' and it was frustrating. This has been the fastest roller coaster ride of the trip.”

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a type of cancer that attacks the body's lymphatic system and attacks white blood cells called lymphocytes. [that] they grow abnormally and can grow (tumors) throughout the body,” according to the Mayo Clinic.

After going public with his diagnosis, Coulier explained that he and his wife Melissa Letha he relied on the advice of friends in the medical field to come up with a “specific plan of how they were going to manage” his aggressive form of cancer.

“That was a very specific decision to say, I'm going to face this head on, and I want people to know it's my life,” Coulier explained on the November 2024 episode of his podcast after his diagnosis was revealed. “I will not try to hide anything. I prefer to talk about it and open up a conversation and inspire people.”

On Friday's episode of his podcast, Coulier revealed that since speaking out about his diagnosis, he's “heard from a lot of people who have been affected by cancer in their lives.”

“I think words of encouragement really helped people,” he said. “So, for me, it's worth the journey of all of this. Just being able to raise awareness that it's okay to get a colonoscopy or an early screening or a mammogram, it's really worth it.”