Dolph Lundgren reveals secret 8 year cancer battle, how a second opinion saved his life

Swedish actor Dolph Lundgren revealed in a candid interview that he has been secretly battling cancer for the last eight years, sharing that his doctor gave him two or three years.

The Rocky star said his cancer battle started when doctors found a tumor in his kidney in 2015. The doctors were able to remove the cancerous tumor in his kidney, "then I did scans every six months, then you do it every year and it was fine, you know, for five years," Lundgren said. "So I kind of asked him, ‘How long do you think I’ve got left?’ And I think he said two or three years, but I could tell in his voice that he probably thought it was less." "I’ve had a frickin’ great life. I’ve lived like five lifetimes in one. So it wasn’t like I was bitter about it." Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a writer on the breaking news team for Fox News Digital. You can reach her on Twitter at @s_rumpfwhitten.

But in 2020, "I was back in Sweden and had some kind of acid reflux," Lundgren recalled. "I didn't know what it was. So I did an MRI, and they found there were a few more tumors around the area."

Six additional tumors were removed during surgery, but one more tumor had grown into the "size of a lemon" in his liver in the fall of 2021 and doctors where unable to remove it.