'I'M GOING TO BATTLE THROUGH THIS'

THE ACTOR WAS SHOCKED BY A NEW CANCER DIAGNOSIS BUT SAYS IT'S ONLY DEEPENED HIS MISSION TO PROMOTE EARLY DETECTION- AND HELP OTHERS TAKE ACTION

- By GILLIAN TELLING

A Devoted Son "He calls me every day," says Coulier of his pilot son Luc (posted in 2019), who recently scheduled his flight route to be with his dad.

Nine months ago Dave Coulier was elated to learn that he was cancer-free after enduring grueling months of chemotherapy to combat stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, with which he was diagnosed in October 2024.

But when he went for his six-month checkup and PET scan, doctors found something at the base of his tongue, where it meets the throat. The initial biopsy was fine. “I thought, ‘Okay, great,’” says the Full House star, 66, whose doctors recommended an MRI and additional biopsies out of precaution. “They came back and said they wished they had better news,” recalls Coulier, after tests revealed he had p16 squamous carcinoma, a type of head and neck cancer. “I went into shock.” While he assumed it was related to his lymphoma, he soon learned that wasn’t the case—and he now credits his PET scan with detecting this new diagnosis much earlier than he would have otherwise. “As weird as this sounds,” he says, “I’m now actually thankful for the first cancer because it helped me detect this second one.”