Candace Cameron Bure checks on ‘Full House’ costar Dave Coulier ‘a lot’ amid his cancer treatment

Candace Cameron Bure and Dave Coulier’s bond is still going strong, almost 30 years after Full House ended its run.

Bure, who played DJ Tanner on the family sitcom that aired on ABC from 1987 to 1995, regularly checks in on Coulier, who played her onscreen dad’s friend Joey Gladstone, since he was diagnosed with stage 3 non Hodgkin’s lymphoma in October.

“I talk to Dave a lot, and he’s still on his journey and doing okay,” the 48-year-old actress told PEOPLE recently at the 32nd Annual Movieguide Awards. “So we’ll see here in the next couple of months, as his chemo rounds end, how he’s feeling.”

Most of the time, she picks up the phone and calls him.

“That’s the most really anyone can do. And you tell people how much you love them, that’s what friends are for,” Bure said. “You’re just there for people, whether it’s to be a listening ear or give words of comfort and encouragement.”

The cast of the TGIF sitcom and its sequel series, Netflix’s Fuller House, is famously close, and they’ve banded together in tough times, including after the death of Bob Saget, who played DJ’s father Danny Tanner, in 2022, and in the wake of Coulier’s cancer diagnosis, which he revealed in November.

The 65-year-old actor and comedian said then that he discovered he had cancer after complications from an upper respiratory infection caused his lymph nodes to swell to the size of golf balls. His doctors tested him to determine the cause.

“Three days later, my doctors called me back and they 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.’ I went from, I got a little bit of a head cold to I have cancer, and it was pretty overwhelming,” Coulier told PEOPLE. “This has been a really fast roller coaster ride of a journey.”

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Since Coulier disclosed his cancer, the Full House cast has gone all in to support him, from John Stamos wearing a bald cap in solidarity to the heartfelt posts that many shared in the wake of his diagnosis. Of course, Coulier shared his health news with them in a group text before he told the public.

“It was just this outpouring of, ‘I will be there. You just name the time, and I know you’re in great hands with [wife Melissa Bring], but what can we do?’ Coulier said when he revealed his diagnosis. “It really is overwhelming the love that we have for each other. We’ve been there for so many years for each other and it’s pretty remarkable.”