Dolph Lundgren Shares Cancer Treatment Updates: 'I'm Living a Normal Life’

Dolph Lundgren in March 2023.Photo:Michael Kovac/Getty Images

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Two years after being told he had terminal cancer,Dolph Lundgrenis feeling good — and looking forward to the future.

“I’m living a normal life. I’m still taking oral medication, but it doesn’t really affect me,” Lundgren, 65, toldEntertainment Tonight. “I mean, there’s no side effects. Every day to me is a blessing, and I really enjoy it, and I feel really good about that.”

The actor was originally diagnosed withkidney cancerin 2015, and promptly underwent treatment while continuing to work on films likeAquamanandCreed 2.

But after a tumor was found in his liver in 2021,Lundgren saidhis doctor “started saying things like, ‘You should probably take a break and spend more time with your family and so forth.'”

“So I kind of asked him, ‘How long do you think I got left?’ I think he said two or three years, but I could tell in his voice that he probably thought it was less,” the action star revealed.

Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV.MGM/Courtesy Everett Collection

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From there, “2022 was basically watching these medications do their thing,” Lundgren said.

And now, the Swedish actor — whomarriedfiancéeEmma Krokdal, 27, in Mykonos on July 13 — is looking forward, with a new film about his life slated to debut next year.

“I have a documentary they’ve been shooting about my life for two years,” he toldET. “They’ve been filming it, and we’re in there editing right now. I’m going to see it in a few weeks and I think that it will come out next year, so that’s pretty exciting.”

source: people.com