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Sam Neill opens up about brutal chemotherapy treatment following shock cancer diagnosis


Sam Neill has revealed his 'brutal' chemotherapy treatment after being diagnosed with stage-three blood cancer.

'I'm on a different one now, so at least I don't look like somebody's bald thumb,' he tells a group of autistic journalism students under the tutelage of Leigh Sales. His son Tim told Australian Story his dad had been back in New Zealand for barely an hour when a doctor phoned with the awful news he had cancer. 'I'm on a different one now, so at least I don't look like somebody's bald thumb,' he tells a group of autistic journalism students under the tutelage of Leigh Sales

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