Sam Neill Shares He’s Cancer-Free After Chemo Stopped Working: ‘An Extraordinary Thing’
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Sam Neill is now cancer-free and he credits a groundbreaking new therapy for it.
“I’ve been living with a particular type of lymphoma for about five years and I was on chemotherapy and the pretty miserable business but it was keeping me alive,” Neill said in an interview with Australian network 7News. “Then the chemo stopped working. I was at a loss and it looked like I was on the way out, which wasn’t ideal obviously.”
The actor’s only option left was CAR T-cell therapy, which genetically modifies patients’ blood cells and is in clinical trials to treat another blood cancer, myeloma, according to the outlet. “I’ve just had a scan just now and there is no cancer in my body, that’s an extraordinary thing,” Neill said. “I’m very, very excited that this can happen.” The Jurassic Park star added: “It’s time I did another movie.”
Neill is currently advocating for state and federal governments to fund the life-saving treatment for all blood cancer patients in Australia with the help of the Snowdome Foundation. “It’s science at its best,” he said.