Sam Neill Cancer-Free After Blood Cancer Treatment

Sam Neill, the 78-year-old Jurassic Park actor from New Zealand, announced he is cancer-free following a recent scan, after four years of treatment for a rare form of blood cancer.

Neill disclosed the news in an interview with 7NEWS Australia, revealing he had been living with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, diagnosed in 2022 at stage three. Swollen glands noticed during press for Jurassic World Dominion prompted the diagnosis. Initial chemotherapy kept the aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma in check, though Neill described it as a "pretty miserable business."

"Then the chemo stopped working," Neill said. "I was at a loss and it looked like I was on the way out, which wasn't ideal, obviously." He turned to CAR T-cell therapy, an immunotherapy that genetically modifies a patient's T-cells, a type of white blood cell, to recognize and attack cancer cells previously invisible to the immune system.

"I've just had a scan just now and there is no cancer in my body," Neill said. "That's an extraordinary thing." Hematologist Miles Prince, who explained the process, said the treatment "turbocharges those cells to then be able to now recognize the myeloma, which was not visible to the...