“I was diagnosed with cancer in 2015,” Dolph Lundgren revealed during an interview on In Depth With Graham Bensinger.
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He noted that the doctors were able to remove the tumour in his kidney.
“Doctors were able to remove a cancerous tumor in my kidney, then I did scans every six months, then you do it every year and it was fine, you know, for five years.” However, in 2020, Lundgren discovered “there were a few more tumours around the area.”

This discovery according to him was when “I was back in Sweden and had some kind of acid reflux…So I did an MRI and they found there were a few more tumors around the area.”

The Swedish actor and martial artist said six tumours were removed during surgery, but one more tumour, which had grown to the “size of a lemon” and could not be easily removed, had been discovered in his liver in the fall of 2021, so he began systemic therapy.

Lundgren’s fiancée Emma Krokdal said, “We realized it was a lot worse than we thought.” Lundgren got a second opinion from a doctor in London, where he was filming sequels to the Aquaman and Expendables franchise, and learned that his kidney cancer was mutating more like lung cancer, leading to an overhaul of his treatment.

“The prognosis is that, hopefully, when they take these out, there’s no cancer activity and the medication that I’m taking is gonna suppress everything else,” Lundgren said. Lundgren has a hopeful outlook: “You just appreciate being lucky enough to be alive.”
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