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Sam Neill on cancer diagnosis: “I didn’t know how long I had to live”
the actor revealed that he was receiving treatment for stage three blood cancer, and that he was now in remission.He 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. The actor will stay on the monthly drug for the rest of his life.He received the diagnosis in March 2022 after noticing lumpy glands in his neck during the publicity tour for Jurassic World Dominion, and it prompted him to write his memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This?, which he credited with giving him a “reason to live”.“I thought I need to do something, and I thought, ‘Shall I start writing?’” he said about the memoir.