In a forthcoming memoir, actor Sam Neill of “Jurassic Park” fame reveals that he’s been battling angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, also known as AITL.
The aggressive form of blood cancer was diagnosed at stage 3, meaning it had spread throughout the actor’s lymphatic system. He told The Guardian newspaper that he underwent chemotherapy and is currently on a new chemotherapy drug that has put him in remission.
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Video: AITL Update Brad Haverkos, MD, associate professor of medicine-hematology at the CU School of Medicine and member of the CU Cancer Center, gave a talk about AITL (second video on page) to the Lymphoma Research Foundation last year. |
Neill, who also stars in the Netflix series “Peaky Blinders” and performed in the Oscar-winning film “The Piano,” is 75 and lives in his native New Zealand.
In the following Q&A, Brad Haverkos, MD, associate professor of medicine-hematology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and member of the CU Cancer Center, talks about this rare form of lymphoma and research being conducted at CU Anschutz into potentially promising new therapies for AITL.