'I'm prepared': Sam Neill's cancer update

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Sam Neill, famous for his role as Alan Grant in "Jurassic Park," shared in an interview that he's been in remission for a year from stage-three blood cancer.
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00:00 I was given one of those scans where they sort of do this, you know,
00:04 like when you're pregnant, they wave it over your tummy.
00:07 And the nurse dropped her piece of equipment and ran out of the room.
00:13 Every two weeks I go in and get beaten up again.
00:16 It's like going ten rounds with a boxer.
00:19 But it's keeping me alive.
00:21 And being alive is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
00:29 I'm not in any way frightened of dying.
00:33 That doesn't worry... It's never worried me from the beginning.
00:38 But I would be annoyed.
00:40 I'd be annoyed because there are things I still want to do.
00:43 Very irritating, dying.
00:48 But I'm not afraid of it.
00:50 [Music]
00:53 [Silence]

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