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Sam Neill, Receiving Treatment For Stage Three Blood Cancer, Says He’s “Just Pleased To Be Alive”

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Sam Neill first noticed he had swollen glands while promoting Jurassic World Dominion last March. After consulting a physician, the actor was diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare form of blood cancer.

His course of treatment began with chemotherapy, which did not work. Neill, now 75, said he began taking a new chemotherapy drug and, after a long road, is now cancer free.

He will, however, need to receive the drug monthly for the rest of his life. “I can’t pretend that the last year hasn’t had its dark moments,” Neill said in an interview with The Guardian. “But those dark moments throw the light into sharp relief, you know, and have made me grateful for every day and immensely grateful for all my friends.

Just pleased to be alive.” The revelation comes as the actor gets ready to publish a memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This?, a book that came about as he sought to fill the downtime between cancer treatments. “I found myself with with nothing to do,” Neill told The Guardian. “And I’m used to working.

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