Sam Neill candidly revealed his heroic story about how he has defeated cancer after years of treatment. He was under treatment since 2023.
During an interview with Australia’s 7 News, he reflected on how his life changed after the diagnosis of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, five years ago.
He noted, “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. 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 Jurassic Park star had only one option left to save his life, and it was CAR T-cell therapy, “a personalized immunotherapy that genetically engineers a patient’s T cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells,” according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Luckily, the CAR T-cell therapy showed results, and he had to take sessions every two weeks for a long period of time. Neill had been in remission for the past twelve years, and now he has been declared cancer-free, as his scans have been showing nothing for a year.
“I’ve just had a scan just now, and there is no cancer in my body, that’s an extraordinary thing,” Sam Neill stated.