Dolph Lundgren is opening up about his secret battle with cancer.
In a new interview, the 65-year-old rocky IV The actor first revealed that he was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2015, and at one point during his battle, was told he only had “two or three years” to live.
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“They found a tumor on my kidney and they removed it…but then they did a biopsy and it was cancerous,” Dolph recalled during an interview on In Depth with Graham Bensinger. “Then I did scans every six months, then you do it every year, then it was fine for about five years.”
Despite having the tumor removed, the cancer returned in 2020, but this time, doctors found six tumors in Dolph’s kidneys and liver.
The growths were too large to remove surgically, so Dolph underwent chemotherapy, which led to some difficult side effects.
“Her mouth ached, her hands ached, her feet ached, and she couldn’t eat anything hot or cold, anything spicy,” Dolph’s fiancée Emma Krokdal explained. “Then it was a struggle to get food, so he kept losing weight.”
After being told he was a “basket case,” Dolph said he began to accept that he was probably going to die.
“They started saying things like, ‘You should take a break and spend more time with your family,’” Dolph recalled her doctors telling her. “So I asked him, ‘How much time do you think I have left?’ And I think he said, ‘Two or three years,’ but I could tell in his voice that it was less.”
“I thought it was safe,” Dolph continued. “You look at his life and you say, ‘I’ve had a good fucking life.’ I’ve lived like five lives in one. So it wasn’t like he was bitter about it.”
Although his condition continued to worsen, Dolph said he refused to give up and eventually got a second opinion from Dr. Alexandra Drakaki, who made a key discovery about his case.
Dr. Drakaki found a mutation in one of the Dolph tumors commonly seen in lung cancer, opening up more potential treatments for him.
“Within three months, things were shrinking 20 to 30 percent,” Dolph said.
By the end of 2022, Dolph’s tumors had shrunk by about “90 percent,” allowing him to finally surgically remove all of the remaining scar tissue.
Now that he’s much better, Dolph says he “appreciates life so much more” and feels “lucky to be alive.”
“In a way, as an actor, you know, you try to put positive emotion and positive energy into the world,” Dolph shared. “I’ve always tried to be nice to everyone I meet…and maybe it came back to me in some way when I needed it most.”
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Source: vcmp.edu.vn