Actor Dolph Lundgren detailed his battle with cancer in an interview on the TV series “In Depth With Graham Bensinger,” saying it was a second opinion that possibly saved his life.

The “Rocky” franchise star, now 65, shared that doctors first found a tumor in his kidney in 2015. Lundgren had been privately fighting the cancer — and successfully managing it — until 2020, when what he thought was acid reflux turned out to be more tumors, including in his liver, reports CNN.

“At that point, it started to hit me that this is kind of something serious,” Lundgren said.

The doctor informed the actor that the tumor had grown so large it had become inoperable. Lundgren’s fiancée, Emma Krokdal, said there was an alternative treatment he began, but it left him with severe side effects.

“His mouth got really sore,” Krokdal recalled. “His hands got sore, [his] feet, and he couldn’t eat anything warm, anything cold or anything spicy. So that was a struggle to get food down so he kept losing weight.”

Lundgren said the doctor told him he had only two to three years left to live, and he looked back at his life feeling grateful, thinking, “I’ve lived like five lifetimes in one already with everything I’ve done.”

Luckily, Lundgren got a second opinion from oncologist Dr. Alexandra Drakaki.

Dr. Drakaki took another biopsy and found a mutation that meant the cancer was treatable with different medication, able to shrink these type of tumors by 90 percent.

Now, Dr. Drakaki says certain parts of Lundgren’s body have been “responding really well” to the treatment, adding that entire lesions have cleared up, which “is above expectations.”

“You know you appreciate life a lot more,” Lundgren said during the conversation with Graham Bensinger. “You appreciate every day.”

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