Sam Neill “back at work” after being treated for blood cancer
nme.comJurassic Park franchise star has spoken to various outlets about writing his new memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This?, which he credits with giving him a “reason to live” following his diagnosis in March 2022.He told The Guardian: “I realised it was actually sort of giving me a reason to live.
I would go to bed thinking, ‘I’ll write about that tomorrow… that will entertain me.'”Neill told the BBC that he was diagnosed with “a ferocious type of aggressive” non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The New Zealander said that he first noticed he had lumpy glands in his neck during a publicity tour for Jurassic World Dominion last year.The actor said that reaction to his health news was “pretty phlegmatic” but it made him “take stock of things”.“I thought I need to do something, and I thought, ‘Shall I start writing?'” he added. “I didn’t think I had a book in me, I just thought I’d write some stories.
And I found it increasingly engrossing.”Neill was diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma and underwent chemotherapy, but when that began to fail he started on a new chemotherapy drug and is now cancer-free.
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