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Jurassic Park Star Sam Neill Is Cancer Free

Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill, who was diagnosed with stage-three blood cancer in 2022 and spent years managing the illness with chemotherapy, revealed this week that he is now completely cancer free after turning to a cutting-edge immunotherapy treatment when the chemotherapy stopped working. Neill, 78, best known for playing Dr. Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park franchise, told Australian network 7News that at a certain point the chemo failed and he felt he was on the way out, a moment he described simply as not ideal. He then underwent CAR T-cell therapy, which works by extracting a patient’s own blood cells, genetically modifying them in a laboratory to recognize and destroy cancer cells, and reinfusing them as a living targeted treatment, and a recent scan found no cancer anywhere in his body. He called the result an extraordinary thing, and said he is very excited that such a treatment can exist.

Neill has since become a vocal advocate for making CAR T-cell therapy more accessible in Australia, where it is limited to clinical trials, though the treatment is already approved and available in the United States and is expanding in other countries, with Neill saying the precision with which it targets cancer cells, rather than attacking the body broadly as chemotherapy does, is what makes it feel like a genuine leap forward. The therapy trains the immune system to seek out and destroy specific cancer cells, meaning side effects are typically far narrower than traditional treatment. When his prognosis was uncertain in 2023, Neill had spoken openly about making peace with his mortality, saying he was not afraid to die but that it would annoy him because he wanted to watch his grandchildren grow up and see the olive trees he had planted mature. That wish now appears to be coming true, and his stated next goal is simple: it is time, he says, that he made another movie.

Source: https://variety.com/2026/film/global/sam-neill-cancer-free-chemo-stopped-working-1236732201/

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