Full House‘s Dave Coulier appeared on Good Morning America to commemorate World Cancer Day, and share the incredible news that his tongue cancer is in remission. Nearly a year ago, he also overcame Stage 3 non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. The two cancers were unrelated.
“I was going in for a checkup for the lymphoma and got a PET scan and it revealed that something was in my throat,” he told anchor Robin Roberts, “and they said, ‘Uh, let’s take a look at this.’” He then underwent a painful robotic surgery to remove part of his tongue so they could take a biopsy of it. “And then it was revealed that I have carcinoma, and totally unrelated,” he said. “Had I not gone in for that PET scan and gotten early detection … it saved my life.”
It was treated with a grueling regime of radiation therapy. “It can steal parts of your life away from you psychologically, emotionally, and certainly physically,” Coulier said. “And I wasn’t going to allow cancer to do that. I was going to laugh my way through it and keep the people that I love close to me.”
One of those people was his longtime Full House co-star John Stamos, who flew out to Michigan to keep Coulier’s spirits up. “He’s my brother,” Coulier said. “He wore a bald cap and when he came around the corner dressed like that, I dropped to the floor laughing. And he got Covid while he was staying with us. So we were like two fifth graders sitting in the hallway talking to each other with walkie-talkies.”
In recent years, Coulier has focused a lot of his time and attention on AwearMarket. It’s an organization that helps people replace standard food and household items with “non-toxic, safer alternatives” that he feels are less likely to create negative health outcomes.
“AwearMarket was born from me being frustrated with all the toxicity that was in my life and trying to replace all the daily products I was using,” Coulier said. “So, I thought there has to be an easier way to do this … We have over 7,000 products and we screen every one of them. There’s a vetting process and so it makes that journey of health a little bit easier for people.”
Up until a year ago, Coulier was the host of the Full House Rewind podcast. It featured him looking back on every individual episode of the classic series, in sequence, with special guests from the show’s long history. Production stopped after they got through the second session. In a message to fans, he said the show suffered from a long break they took during the SAG strike. “We never gained our audience back,” he said. “We tried. We promoted, and then we added Marla Sokoloff. Yes, Gia from Full House, my perfect smart, funny co-host. Well, then our numbers didn’t increase, and we knew we were beating our heads against the wall.”
One issue they faced was competition from Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber’s How Rude, Tanneritos! podcast, which also went through the series one episode at a time. That one is still going strong. Earlier this week, they recapped the Season Six episode Love and Other Tanners. That’s the one where D.J. tells Steve that she loves him, and Danny tries to break them up.
Fans continue to hope that the gang will reunite at some point for a follow-up to the sequel series Fuller House, which aired on Netflix from 2016 to 2020. “Fuller House was one of the best experiences of my life,” Candace Cameron told TV Insider in 2025. “I loved being able to play a grown-up D.J. Tanner, and I’d love to play her again.”
