Balanced News: Actor Sam Neill reveals ‘aggressive’ blood cancer diagnosis

Actor Sam Neill has revealed he has stage three lymphoma, which was diagnosed about a year ago. The star of The Piano and the Jurassic Park movies made the revelation in his upcoming memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This? which is being released next week. Neill said he underwent chemotherapy to treat the cancer, but it was not successful initially. However, his cancer is now in remission after he was put on a new treatment regime. Neill is working again and says it is fantastic after 12 months of not working. David Downs, a former cancer patient and patient advocate, said Neill’s cancer diagnosis sheds light on how quickly treatments change. However, access to more experimental cancer treatments is often difficult and costly.