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Old 17-03-2023, 07:37 PM #1
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[Jurassic Park star Sam Neill has revealed he
has been diagnosed with stage
three blood cancer.
The 75-year-old actor told The Guardian that
writing his memoir gave him a
"reason to live" following the diagnosis.
He said he started writing the book,
called Did I Ever Tell You This?,
as a way to keep busy while receiving
treatment last year.
"I realised it was actually sort of giving
me a reason to live," Neill said.
"I would go to bed thinking:
'I'll write about that tomorrow... that will
entertain me.']


[His book also reportedly discusses his
experience with chemotherapy,
which initially started to fail,
before he began taking a new
chemotherapy drug that he will
take monthly for the rest of his life,
despite now being cancer-free.]


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That’s so sad to hear .. one of my favourite actors

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Oh no, one of my favourite actors.
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He’s lucky to be able to afford the very best treatment available to him ..


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Hopefully the new Drug that he is taking will work wonders for him.
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Posting Paper, on this thread as well
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Good actor. Hope he gets well.
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Thats so sad....I just love Sam Neill.
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very sad, hope he gets well

one of my fave actors (and also seems like a really lovely guy, also seen him one time on his farm, a show which was broadcast on our cooking channel 24Kitchen, he has such cute piggies and has his own wine too)


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I hope he gets well soon but at the same time cancer isn’t the death sentence it used to be so my fingers are confidently crossed anyway. There’s so much they can do for it these days. Hopefully he’s early-stage.
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I heard an advert on LBC Radio that said 1 in 2 get cancer.

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I heard an advert on LBC Radio that said 1 in 2 get cancer.

Surely that cannot be right.
They were probably saying that 1 in 2 people will be personally affected by cancer in general, whether themselves or just by virtue of knowing someone who has it. But either way it does get on my nerves when people act like cancer’s a literal death-sentence. As a society we’re conditioned to hear more about the tragic cases and they absolutely have my sympathy (especially considering I lost someone close to cancer a couple of years back) but just as many people win the battle. And some forms of leukaemia/blood cancer are really mild and responsive to treatment.
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Well, that’s life. One thing we probably need to do worldwide this decade is taking away some of this over-stigmatisation of cancer away. Sympathy’s obviously key for anyone suffering from any serious illness but too much of ‘omg I can’t believe person X has such a horrid disease’ makes sufferers feel like they’re essentially a goner and probably shouldn’t even try with surgery/chemo. In 2023 it is not the invariable death sentence it used to be and that needs to be reflected in the way people talk about it (more optimism than sympathetically expecting them to be goners). Comments like that are annoying to read after a while.
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They were probably saying that 1 in 2 people will be personally affected by cancer in general, whether themselves or just by virtue of knowing someone who has it. But either way it does get on my nerves when people act like cancer’s a literal death-sentence. As a society we’re conditioned to hear more about the tragic cases and they absolutely have my sympathy (especially considering I lost someone close to cancer a couple of years back) but just as many people win the battle. And some forms of leukaemia/blood cancer are really mild and responsive to treatment.
Yes, that could sound about right. But even so I don't know of anyone, friends, family, neighbours who have had cancer.
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Yes, that could sound about right. But even so I don't know of anyone, friends, family, neighbours who have had cancer.
I’m a bit surprised you genuinely don’t know anyone who’s had it. I used the one close relation who sadly lost the battle some years back as one example (and a really sad one) but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. All my life I’ve known of people who’ve had some form of cancer over the years and I assume that’s what more people than not experience. It’s not a rare kind of illness.
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I could tell you a lot of stories, Gusto, (some tragic, many others good-outcome) of the people I know who’ve battled cancer but ultimately those aren’t my stories to tell and much of it’s quite personal so I’m not going to say too much. But just know that cancer’s far from the rare death-sentence you might’ve thought of it as. There are probably people in your local pub dealing with it. People go through so much in life.
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I’m a bit surprised you genuinely don’t know anyone who’s had it. I used the one close relation who sadly lost the battle some years back as one example (and a really sad one) but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. All my life I’ve known of people who’ve had some form of cancer over the years and I assume that’s what more people than not experience. It’s not a rare kind of illness.

Hand on heart, NO. My grandfather and grandmother died of natural causes, as did two of my uncles and an aunt. No friends haven't been stricken with it either, or their parents. If so it has never been mentioned. It's always the heart that fails in the deaths I know about. But usually in very old age.

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Hand on heart, NO. My grandfather and grandmother died of natural causes, as did two of my uncles and an aunt. No friends haven't been stricken with it either, or their parents. If so it has never been mentioned. It's always the heart that fails in the deaths I know about. But usually in very old age.
I wasn’t really insinuating that cancer was the most common note for old people to go out on by any means in the first place but like I said I’m surprised.

I don’t know what kind of lucky, lucky life you’ve lived. I don’t just know for you.
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