Sam Neill's stage 3 blood cancer diagnosis was initially misdiagnosed as 'undetected COVID,' the 'Jurassic Park' star recalled in his new memoir, 'Did I Ever Tell You This?'
"Jurassic Park" star Sam Neill revealed that his doctor initially misdiagnosed hisThe 75-year-old actor, who plays Dr. Alan Grant in the"Jurassic Park" franchise, shared that he consulted his doctor in Sydney, Australia, after becoming concerned about his swollen glands while on a press tour for the 2022 movie"Jurassic Park: World Dominion."
"It was a blast to catch up with my idiot friends and goof around as per. I noticed the glands seemed to be up in my neck region, but gave it very little thought. My agent had to kill a few photographs because my neck looked lumpy. Alan Grant doesn't have a lumpy neck, it seems."After returning to Sydney, Neil visited his doctor after becoming concerned when his symptoms weren't improving.
"Within a few days, I was lying on a hospital bed having all kinds of chemicals draining into my system, killing everything aboard," Neill recalled."For therapeutic reasons. To be cured of a thing I didn't know I had just a few days ago. Yep, suddenly things are different — this is some serious s---.""After, it took only a little over two weeks for the hair to disappear completely from the top of my head," he wrote.
Though Neill's second PET scan indicated that the chemotherapy was working, his third scan detected that the tumors had returned.switched chemotherapy drugs at the direction of his doctor. Though he recalled that his fourth round of chemotherapy"got a bit bumpy," Neill was eager to get back to work. He began voiceover work on a TV show but was frustrated by his weakened condition.
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