Actor Sam Neill has shared an update on his blood cancer treatment Sam Neill has given insight into living with stage-three blood cancer after revealing that his chemotherapy had not worked. Despite this, the Jurassic Park star, 76, has insisted that he is ‘not afraid’ of dying. He is also taking an experimental new drug after being diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, which has been working, keeping him in remission for the past 12 months.
After all, the thought of retirement ‘fills me with horror’, he admits. With his son Tim, who was shocked by his appearance at the time The Peaky Blinders actor and winemaker also said that he’s ‘not really interested in’ his cancer, and would rather spend his time on other, precious things than scouring the internet for help and information on his condition. ‘It’s out of my control. If you can’t control it, don’t get into it,’ Neill argued.