Actor Sam Neill announces his cancer is in remission after gene therapy

Actor Sam Neill, famous for playing paleontologist Alan Grant in the cult film Jurassic Park, announced that he has beaten his cancer after living with lymphoma for five years, thanks to gene therapy that modified his immune system. The New Zealander had revealed in his memoirs published in 2023 that he was " perhaps dying "of a stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma."

Aged 78, Mr. Neill told Australian Channel Seven News last weekend that he was living with blood cancer for about five years, but her chemotherapy had eventually stopped working. “ I was distraught and felt like I was at the end of my life, which was obviously not ideal." he recounted.

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"There is no more cancer in my body."

The actor underwent immunotherapy known as " CAR-T cells", which uses an inactivated virus to genetically reprogram human T cells responsible for fighting infections, thus enabling them to target specific cancers. “ I just had a scan and there's no more cancer in my body, it's amazing!", the actor announced.

His long career in front of the camera began in the 1970s, extending to more recent roles such as in the hit series Peaky Blinders or the latest installment of Jurassic Park, entitled Dominion, released in 2022.