Dave Collier
David Livingston/Getty ImagesFull house star Dave Collier He shared a candid update about his ongoing cancer treatment.
“Side effects have side effects,” Collier, 65, said in the latest episode of his show. “Full House Rewind” podcast. Published on Friday, January 10. “Then you take a drug to counteract this and this and that. 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 adapt to steroids?” How can I adapt to the chemical cocktail?
Collier went on to say that his body is in a “constant battle.”
“It's a bit of an internal battle,” he continued.
In November 2024, the actor revealed that he had been diagnosed with stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In an interview with the peopleCollier explained that he first received his diagnosis in October of the same year after suffering from an upper respiratory infection that led to severe swelling of the lymph nodes.
As a result, Collier underwent PET and CT scans as well as a biopsy.
“Three days later, my doctors called me and said, 'We wish we had better news for you, but you have non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and it's called B-cell and it's very aggressive,'” Collier told the outlet at the time. “I went from 'I had a little bit of a cold' to 'I have cancer' and it was so overwhelming. It's been a really quick roller coaster ride.”
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a form of cancer that fights the body's lymphatic system and affects “white blood cells called lymphocytes (which) grow abnormally and can form growths (tumors) throughout the body,” according to the website. engadget. Mayo Clinic.
After publicly revealing his diagnosis, Collier explained that he and his wife Melissa brought He relied on the advice of friends who worked in the medical field to create a “very specific plan for how they were going to treat” his aggressive type of cancer.
“This was a really conscious decision, 'I'm going to meet this person, and I want people to know that this is my life,'” Collier explained on a November 2024 episode of his podcast after revealing his diagnosis. “I will not try to hide anything. I would rather talk about it, open up the debate and inspire people.”
On Friday's episode of his podcast, Coulier revealed that since sharing his diagnosis he has “heard from a lot of people who have been touched by cancer in their lives.”
“I think the words of encouragement really helped people,” he said. “And that, to me, is worth the whole journey. Just being able to alert people that it's okay to have colonoscopies or early screenings or mammograms, it's really worth it.”
