The Swedish actor famous for playing Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in 'Rocky IV' said that he was first diagnosed in 2015 but said that doctors' recently expressed that he only has 'two or three years' left to live.
While discussing his years-long treatment, the actor said he started with “scans every six months” in 2015, before escalating to every year, and eventually, he was “fine for five years.” Then, while back in Sweden in 2020, he said he had acid reflux and went in for a check-up. “I did an MRI, and they found that there were a few more tumors around that area,” he explained.
“There’s a picture that I was going to direct and star in that was starting in the fall. The doctor called me when I was in Alabama ready to shoot and said, ‘They found one more tumor in the liver,'” he recalled. “At that point, it started to hit me that this is kind of something serious. They did a scan to prepare for surgery. And the surgeon called me and said, ‘No, it’s grown now. It’s too big. We can’t take it out. It’s like the size of a small lemon.
Lundgren said the tone of his health team began to change, with the doctor “saying things like, ‘You should probably take a break and spend more time with your family and so forth.'” That prompted him to ask how much time he had left, to which the doctor responded “two or three years,” though Lundgren said he “could tell in his voice that he probably thought it was less.”
That prognosis, however, would receive some pushback after the Hollywood performer sought a second opinion from a physician who treated his kidney cancer with an approach that targeted a mutation common in lung cancer. The actor reveals that if he had followed the advice of the first physician, “he would have had about three or four months left.” Lundgren said.
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