‘Rocky’ Series Star Dolph Lundgren is Cancer-Free, Boxer Israel Vazquez Died of Cancer and More

‘Rocky’ franchise star Dolph Lundgren is cancer-free.

Actor Dolph Lundgren, best known for his work in the “Rocky” film franchise, has announced that he is cancer-free nearly a decade after first being diagnosed with kidney cancer.

Lundgren, 67, shared the news with fans in a Nov. 26 video posted to Instagram.

“Here I am at UCLA. [I’m] about to go in and get rid of that last dead tumor. Since there are no cancer cells in my body anymore, then I guess I’ll be cancer-free, so I’m looking forward to this procedure,” said Lundgren in his Instagram video, according to a report from Deadline.

Lundgren, according to a report from PEOPLE on the post, said he was at UCLA to undergo a lung ablation. Ablative treatment involves the use of temperature to kill cancer cells and surrounding tissue, according to the American Cancer Society.

Lundgren announced in 2023 that he was initially diagnosed with cancer in 2015 when doctors found a tumor on his kidney. Following surgery, he was symptom-free for about five years, but in 2020 tumors were found in the areas of his kidney and liver. At the time, Lundgren said that he was told he only had two to three years to live, according to Deadline.

Boxer Israel Vazquez died of cancer.

Boxer Israel Vazquez died on Dec. 3 at the age of 46, less than a month after revealing that he had received a diagnosis of sarcoma, according to a report from the Associated Press.

Vazquez, who had won three bantamweight world championships, shared the news of his diagnosis on Nov. 10. His death was announced by World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman announced the death on Tuesday.

“Israel is finally resting in peace. May God provide his family with strength we extend all the support to his wife Laura, his kids, family and friends during this difficult time,” Sulaiman said on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Thanks champion for leaving a special footprint. You will always be ‘El Magnifico.’”

Vazquez debuted in 1995 and retired from boxing in 2010, according to the Associated Press, which listed his record as 44 wins and five losses, with 32 knockouts.

‘Baywatch’ actress Nicole Eggert received cancer tattoos.

Nicole Eggert, 52, known for her role as Summer Quinn on the television show “Baywatch,” recently shared that she needed “cancer tattoos” for her breast cancer treatment.

“OK so I just got out of my CT scan, mapping — as they call it — for my radiation treatment, and when they said they were gonna tattoo me, I didn’t realize it was actual, true tattoos, so I was tatted!” she said in a video on Instagram.

She explained in the video that the tattoo dots would be placed on affected organs that would receive radiation.

“They’re gonna do CT scans and they call it imaging and tattooing of my orangs, it’s so that when they shoot the radiation into me, they can hopefully miss most of the vital organs,” she said.

In October, Eggert opened up about undergoing a single mastectomy nearly a year after her diagnosis of stage 2 cribriform carcinoma, a rare form of breast cancer in December 2023.

ESPN NBA insider revealed prostate cancer diagnosis after retiring.

Adrian Wojnarowski, 55, a former ESPN NBA insider, recently announced that he received a diagnosis of prostate cancer in March.

The news about his cancer was revealed in a Sports Illustrated profile, where he explained that his prognosis is good. Wojnarowski explained to Sports Illustrated that his decision to leave ESPN was related to his diagnosis.

“When you hear cancer, you think about it going through your body like Pac-Man,” he told Sports Illustrated. “Prostate cancer, it generally stays confined to your prostate and is typically slow growing.”

Currently, he is not showing any symptoms and will be under active surveillance, meaning he will be closely monitored for any potential growth or changes.

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