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Sam Neill cancer-free after five years of treatment
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Sam Neill cancer-free after five years of treatment

NME·Liberty Dunworth·6 months ago
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Jurassic Park star Sam Neill has revealed that he is now cancer-free after five years of treatment.

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The actor first went public with his diagnosis in 2023 , having been confirmed to have a type of blood cancer called angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma the year prior. He went to the doctor and got the diagnosis after noticing swollen glands during his time promoting 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion .

Now, after almost five years of battling stage-three cancer, Neill has revealed that he has been given the all clear.

“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,” he told Australian network 7News .

He added that while he felt like he was “at a loss” and “on the way out” when the chemotherapy stopped working, he decided to undergo a new cutting-edge treatment called CAR T-cell therapy, which works by genetically modifying blood…

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