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Sam Neill Says He Is Cancer-Free After CAR-T Therapy

The case spotlights CAR‑T therapy’s potential, prompting debate over access in Australia.

Overview

  • Neill, who spoke Tuesday to Australia’s 7News, said recent scans showed no cancer after a five‑year fight with an angioimmunoblastic T‑cell lymphoma.
  • He said chemotherapy kept the disease in check at first but then stopped working, leaving him in a critical state and fearing he might die.
  • He entered a clinical trial for CAR‑T immunotherapy, which reprograms a patient’s own T cells to find and destroy cancer cells, and credited it with clearing the disease.
  • He called on Australia’s federal and state governments to fund CAR‑T so patients can get it beyond the small number of clinical trials now offering it.
  • The 78‑year‑old, known for Jurassic Park, said he is ready to return to acting and had first revealed his diagnosis in a 2023 memoir.