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Dave Coulier revealed how much weight he lost after being diagnosed with HPV-related oropharyngeal tongue cancer.
Coulier, 66, told people On Tuesday, December 2, he lost 10 pounds due to discomfort while eating. He noted that the treatment he was receiving was different from chemotherapy but came with its own set of challenges.
“I had difficulty swallowing and speaking,” he said. “I sounded like I was drunk because I was slurring my words.”
Coulier is Initially diagnosed as stage III non-Hodgkin lymphoma In October 2024, an upper respiratory tract infection caused severe swelling of lymph nodes.
David Livingston/Getty Images Since revealing he had Stage III non-Hodgkin lymphoma in November 2024, Dave Coulier has been candid about his condition, treatment and prognosis leading up to his second diagnosis. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a cancer that affects a patient’s lymphatic system, “where white blood cells called lymphocytes grow abnormally and may form growths (…)
“I went from having a little cold to having cancer, and it was just overwhelming,” he told People magazine, noting that the cancer had not yet spread to his bone marrow. “At that point, my cure rate went from very low to 90 percent. So that was a great day.”
Coulier said on a January 2025 episode of the “Full House Rewind” podcast that his treatment has been a “constant battle.”
“Side effects are side effects,” he said. “Then you take medications to counteract this, this and that. So, in this constant cocktail, your body is in fight or flight mode and you’re just trying to adapt, ‘Okay, how do I adapt to the steroids? How do I adapt to the chemotherapy cocktail?'”
“It’s kind of an internal battle,” he added.
Earlier this year, Coulier learned he was cancer-free. From then on he Been battling tongue cancer.
“Going through chemo and feeling the relief of, ‘Wow, it’s gone.'” And then getting a test and the results say, ‘Now you have another cancer.’ … It’s a shock to the whole system,” he said on the “Today Show” on Tuesday.
Coulier pointed out that he Showing no symptoms Or a sign discovered by chance during a follow-up scan confirmed his second cancer diagnosis.
“It was a very difficult year and the chemo was exhausting,” Coulier said. “A few months ago I had a PET scan and it showed something was flared. The doctor said, ‘We don’t know what it is, but there’s something at the base of your tongue.'”
Coulier’s medical team assured him of a “good prognosis.”
“They said it might have stemmed from HPV from 30 years ago. A lot of people have HPV, but they said mine got activated and turned into cancer,” he explained. “We caught it early and it’s very easy to treat. … It has a 90 percent cure rate.”
He continued: “It’s a completely different animal than chemotherapy. It doesn’t feel as aggressive as chemotherapy, but there are still side effects. My joke is usually…for someone with cancer, I’m doing pretty well. I start the new year by saying, ‘I finished radiation yesterday!’ It’s kind of serendipitous.”
