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Dave Coulier Details Hardest Days of Chemotherapy, Credits Wife


Dave Coulier recalled the hardest days of undergoing chemotherapy amid his battle with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The Full House star detailed his health scare in the Wednesday, April 16, episode of “How Rude, Tanneritos!” Describing the period between his cancer’s diagnosis and his remission, he said it was “this journey of, ‘OK, let’s make it through the rounds of chemotherapy,’ and you know, they say they have to kill you in order to save your life, and there were times where I felt like I don’t know how many more of these I can do. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a type of cancer that affects the patient’s lymphatic system, with “white blood cells called lymphocytes [that] grow abnormally and can form growths (tumors) throughout […] At one point, Coulier suffered a rhinovirus infection and his “immune system couldn’t keep up with it.” As he recovered from the temporary illness, doctors told him that had he delayed treatment, “We could have lost you.

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