Overview
- Lundgren used interviews and his new documentary Dolph: Unbreakable, released on digital platforms on Tuesday, to say a second opinion from a UCLA team corrected years of wrong treatment and ‘‘saved’’ him.
- The actor was first treated after a 2015 tumor was read as kidney cancer and, after his initial drugs failed, a specialist re‑review in 2022 identified a mutation more typical of lung cancer that changed his therapy.
- By the time of the re‑review, tumors had spread to his lungs, spine, stomach and liver, and Lundgren says the new regimen produced a rapid response that led him to be cancer‑free as of November 2024.
- He kept the illness private while continuing to work, credits his wife Emma Krokdal with managing treatments and diet, and says he and his wife considered a malpractice suit but chose not to file one.
- Lundgren’s story underscores how specialist review and molecular testing can change diagnoses and treatment, and it may prompt patients and doctors to seek re‑evaluation when cancers do not respond as expected.