Jurassic Park star Sir Sam Neill reveals he's cancer-free
Sir Sam Neill, who played Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, has announced that he's cancer-free.
Sir Sam Neill is cancer-free.
The 78-year-old actor - who is perhaps best known for playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park - was diagnosed with stage 3 blood cancer four years ago, but Sam is now cancer-free thanks to an innovative form of treatment.
Sam told 7News Australia: "I've been living with a particular type of lymphoma. 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."
Sam ultimately underwent CAR T-cell therapy to train his immune cells to recognise and destroy cancer, and the results have been remarkable.
The actor - whose film credits also include Death in Brunswick, The Hunt For Red October, The Piano, In the Mouth of Madness, and Jurassic World Dominion - said: "I've just had a scan just now and there is no cancer in my body. That's an extraordinary thing. I'm very, very excited that this can happen."
Sam first revealed news of his cancer battle in his book Did I Ever Tell You This, which he started work on following his diagnosis.
Speaking to Sky News after the tome's release, Sam said: "The cancer thing came out as a corollary to the release of the book, which is a memoir that I wrote when I was under chemo. I'm doing absolutely fine now. What was slightly annoying was that the story was sort of 'cancer, cancer, cancer, cancer', and really the other half of the story is 'remission, remission and remission - and I'm absolutely fine."
Then, in 2024, Sam admitted that he wouldn't be alive if it weren't for the advancements in medicine to treat cancer.
Speaking on Kate Thornton's White Wine Question Time podcast, he said: "I'm in remission and as you see, I'm hard at work and enjoying life immensely.
"I'm very grateful for not just the wonderful care I've had from doctors and nurses and so on, but also the strides that have been made in treating these things in the last few years."
