“Rocky IV” star Dolph Lundgren is celebrating his life this holiday season.
The Swedish-born actor posted an update from his hospital bed before surgery earlier this week, announcing that he is “finally cancer free with gratitude and excitement for a bright future.”
In the video, Lundgren said, “I’m here at UCLA, I’m about to go in and have that last tumor removed. Since the cancer cells are gone from my body, I think I’ll be cancer-free. I’m looking forward to this procedure.”
He explained that he was undergoing a lung resection, a minimally invasive procedure that uses heating or cooling techniques to destroy tumor tissue, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“Rocky IV” star Dolph Lundgren announced he is “finally cancer free” in a video on social media. (Michael Tullberg/Getty Images)
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“It’s been a tough journey and it’s really taught me how to live in the moment and enjoy every moment of life. I mean, it’s the only way to go,” Lundgren said before signing off for surgery.
On Wednesday on his Instagram story, the actor shared a short update, writing, “Thank you for all your kind messages and supportive comments.”
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“It’s going to take a while to break me,” he added, with a winking emoji, a nod to his famous line in “Rocky IV” when he told Sylvester Stallone, “I’ve got to break you.”
Lundgren thanked fans for their support, writing, “It’s gonna take a while to break me,” a nod to his famous line to Sylvester Stallone in “Rocky IV.” (Getty Images)
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Lundgren was first diagnosed with cancer in 2015 when doctors found a tumor on his kidney. Doctors were able to remove the tumor, and she remained cancer-free for five years.
“[I am] finally cancer free with gratitude and joy for a bright future.”
In an interview on “In Depth With Graham Bensinger,” he revealed that doctors found “a few more tumors in the area” in 2020 and removed six more tumors, but one had grown to “the size of a lemon” in his liver, too. the doctors could not remove it.
“It looked good,” he told Fox News Digital in January of this year. “I mean, there was a doctor in London who told me you should stop working and spend more time with your family. Then I realized it was bad.”
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However, the “Universal Solider” star later found out that his doctors “were giving me the wrong treatment because they hadn’t checked all the biopsies.”
“I got a second opinion from a doctor at UCLA, and he went back and looked at all the biopsies, and he said, ‘Well, you know, this is a different mutation than what they said,'” Lundgren recalled.
“They didn’t test it. They just thought. As soon as I got the new medication, I started to get better. That was it. [2022].”
Lundgren was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, and at one point was given two years to live before seeking a second opinion. (Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)
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“Last year, I had all those tumors removed,” Lundgren recalled. “They freeze it or use radiation. And then, you know, now I’m living a normal life, I would say. Except I have to go for a check-up every three months. But everything else is like back to normal. So, it was scary and magical at the same time.”
Fox News Digital’s Ashley Hume and Larry Fink contributed to this report.
