Dolph Lundgren Reveals Private 8-Year Battle with Cancer

Dolph Lundgren has gone public for the first time with the cancer battle he's been fighting since 2015.

The Rocky actor shared this revelation in a recent appearance on In Depth with Graham Bensinger. He said doctors first found and treated a tumor on his kidney. Lundgren said that for five years, his semi-annual cancer scans came back clear. Then, in 2020, an MRI detected an additional six tumors in other areas of his body.

After Lundgren had surgery to remove those tumors, another tumor on his liver was found. Unfortunately, due to it being the size of "a small lemon," it was deemed too big to remove. As a result, he underwent systemic therapy. This resulted in some intense side effects, including diarrhea and major weight loss.

Lundgren then detailed a lack of communication from his doctors in Los Angeles while he was in London filming The Expendables 4 and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. He said his doctors advised him to "take a break and spend more time with your family." At one point, doctors told him he had two or three years left.

Fortunately, Lundgren sought out a different oncologist for a second opinion. This doctor was able to discover his tumors for kidney cancer shared a similar mutation found in lung cancer. Lundgren's cancer was treated in accordance with a lung cancer treatment, which resulted in his tumors shrinking by 90% in size.

"Now I'm in the process of taking out the remaining scar tissue of these tumors," said Lundgren. " ... Hopefully when they take these out, there is no cancer activity, and the medication that I'm taking is going to suppress everything else."

Throughout movie history, various dates within them have taken on special meaning thanks to pop culture.

Some dates had crucial roles in the plots of films and helped provide an overall setting. Other dates have become unique one-liners that have become part of the general lexicon. If you're a fan of Mean Girls, there's a specific date you associate with the movie, and it's not its release date. The same can be applied to Back to the Future, The Breakfast Club, Empire Records, Miss Congeniality and more.

From the funny to the frightening, here are ten fictional dates from movies everyone should know.

This is a truly momentous date in all of cinema. October 3 is now unofficially called #MeanGirlsDay across all of social media.

A true red-letter date, indeed. Even if you aren't a Back to the Future superfan, you're still at least aware of the importance of November 5, 1955.

AKA: The day Rocky Balboa ended the Cold War. [Cues John Cafferty's "Hearts on Fire"] In all seriousness, though, did anyone else find it weird Rocky and Adrian didn't bring their son to Russia for the fight?

[Insert "Die Hard is a Christmas movie" rant here.] Again, in all seriousness, it's hard to imagine action film history without this classic, regardless of where you fall in the Christmas film debate.

"Valentine's Day. Bummer." Side note: Hey, the world didn't end! How about that for a silver lining?!

On this fateful day, a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal served detention. Teen films were never the same. We'll never forget about this John Hughes gem.

"We mustn't dwell. No, not today. We can't. Not on Rex Manning day!" Related thought: "Say No More, Mon Amour" is an undeniable bop. If you say otherwise, you're simply lying to yourself.

Honestly, Miss Rhode Island isn't wrong. All you really need is a light jacket. Depending on where you live, you may not even need the jacket! What a perfect date, indeed!

"Perhaps, it's fate today is the fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom." Independence Day is so delightfully over the top, and this scene below perfectly encapsulates its melodrama.

"On August 29, 1997, it's gonna feel pretty f---ing real to you too!" A very dark scene, but on the plus side, there wasn't an apocalypse in reality. So, yay?