Sam Neill Says He’s Cancer-Free After Chemo Stopped Working
Rolling Stone • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Actor Sam Neill is now cancer-free after undergoing CAR T-cell therapy for a type of lymphoma he had been battling for five years.
- Neill's lymphoma stopped responding to chemotherapy, leaving CAR T-cell therapy as his last treatment option.
- CAR T-cell therapy involves genetically modifying a patient's blood cells and is currently in clinical trials for treating blood cancers like myeloma.
- Neill expressed excitement about his cancer-free status and is advocating for government funding of this therapy for all blood cancer patients in Australia.
- He is working with the Snowdome Foundation to promote access to this groundbreaking treatment, calling it "science at its best."
