Jurassic Park star Sam Neill says he’s now cancer free after undergoing CAR T-cell therapy when his regular chemotherapy stopped working.
The 78-year-old actor, who you’ll recognize from Jurassic Park and Peaky Blinders, previously revealed that he was diagnosed with stage-three blood cancer in March 2022.
Now, he’s providing an extraordinary update.
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“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.
At one point, after the chemotherapy stopped working, “I was at a loss and it looked like I was on the way out, which wasn’t ideal obviously,” he continued.
He then underwent CAR T-cell therapy, which apparently “genetically modifies patients’ blood cells.”
“I’ve had a scan just now, and there is no cancer in my body….that’s an extraordinary thing,” he shared. “I’m very, very excited that this can happen.” He also said, “I was standing on the edge of a cliff, it’s not a nice place to be.”
Hematologist Miles Prince said that, for the treatment, “[we] turbocharge those cells to then be able to now recognize the myeloma, which was not visible to the immune system before and then jump on it and kill it.”