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Dave Coulier is celebrating the conclusion of a difficult health battle.
The Full House alum revealed that he is officially in remission from both Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and tongue cancer, having battled both diseases in quick succession.
"It's been a roller coaster ride for sure," Dave said during an interview with Good Morning America on February 4. "I'm in remission from both cancers. And what a journey it has been.
After enduring two cancer battles in as many years, the 66-year-old believes he can "help people" by sharing his experience.
"I never wanted to be the poster boy for cancer, believe me," he told me. "But now I feel like I can encourage people to get those prostate exams and mammograms and just talk to your doctors and get ahead of this."
Dave went on to say that his wife Melissa Bring, whom he married in 2014, as well as his and ex-Jayne Modean's 33-year-old son Luc—not to mention his Full House co-stars like John Stamos, who kept him laughing—were huge sources of encouragement for him throughout his journey.
While the comedian has overcome his most recent battle, he admits, "I feel like cancer is always in the rearview mirror behind me." It's like, "Eh, are you trying to pass me here?’”
So, for himself and everyone else, Dave reasoned, "Early detection really means everything."
Dave revealed in December that he had begun treatment for tongue cancer, which he described as the result of HPV activating into carcinoma, less than a year after being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in November 2024.
"It is a shock to the system," he explained to Today at the time. "To go through chemotherapy and feel that relief of whoa, it's gone, and then to get a test that says, well now you've got another kind of cancer."
Despite what he described as a "really tough" few years, Dave tried to keep things in perspective.
"My joke usually is I'm doing really well for a guy with cancer," he said afterwards. "The silver lining here is that I had cancer, which allowed me to detect my other cancer." It seems crazy to make that statement, but it is true."
