Dolph Lundgren has shared some excellent well being information. 9 years after being recognized with most cancers that was thought of terminal, the Rocky IV actor has revealed on Instagram that he’s “lastly most cancers free.”
“Well being replace – lastly most cancers free with gratefulness and pleasure for a brilliant future. Thanks for all of your assist all the time. 🙏”, Lungren captioned his Instagram put up.
“Right here I’m at UCLA. [I’m] about to go in and do away with that final lifeless tumor. Since there are not any most cancers cells in my physique anymore, then I assume I’ll be cancer-free, so I’m trying ahead to this process,” mentioned Lundgren in his Instagram video.
“It’s been a tough experience and actually taught me the best way to dwell within the second and luxuriate in each second of life,” he added. “It’s the one approach to go.”’
Lundgren, who additionally starred in The Expendables 4 and Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom, first revealed that he had most cancers in 2023, on the syndicated interview collection In Depth With Graham Bensinger. He mentioned he was first recognized with kidney most cancers in 2015. After surgical procedure, he remained symptom-free for about 5 years however throughout a health care provider go to throughout a visit to Sweden in 2020 was discovered to have extra tumors within the kidney and liver areas.
At that time, the actor mentioned, he was given a prognosis of terminal most cancers with solely 2-3 years to dwell. He says that on the time he thought, “I’ve had a fantastic life. I’ve dwell like 5 lifetimes in a single. So it wasn’t like I felt bitter however I felt sorry for my children and my fiancé.”
Ultimately Lundgren sought a further opinion from oncologist Dr. Alexandra Drakaki of UCLA Medical Middle, and was positioned on a extra recently-developed medicinal remedy. Lundgren mentioned the remedy – which he underwent whereas filming each The Expendables 4 and Aquaman and the Misplaced Kingdom – had confirmed efficient in lowering the scale of the tumors by 90%.
In Might, Deadline completely reported Lundgren had been forged together with Michael Jai White (The Darkish Knight) and Charlotte Kirk (The Reckoning) within the motion thriller Struggle Or Flight with Shane Dax Taylor (The Christmas Basic) set to direct.
Greg Evans contributed to this report.
