SYDNEY, April 29 -- Actor Sam Neill says he is cancer-free after five years of living with lymphoma, thanks to a genetic therapy that modified his immune system.

The New Zealander, who starred as Dr Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park, revealed in a 2023 memoir he was "possibly dying" with stage-three non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Neill, 78, said in a weekend interview he had lived with the blood cancer for about five years but his chemotherapy treatment eventually stopped working.

"I was at a loss and it looked like I was on the way out, which wasn't ideal, obviously," he told Australia's Channel Seven News.

The actor was treated with CAR T-cell therapy, which uses a disabled virus to genetically reprogram human infection-fighti...