‘Jurassic Park’ Alum Sam Neill Looks Back on Surviving Stage 3 Cancer Battle: ‘I Was on the Way Out’

Actor Sam Neill escaped extinction in the Jurassic Park flicks and now he’s miraculously survived stage 3 blood cancer during a five-year battle with the killer where he seemed doomed.

“It looked like I was on the way out,” the 78-year-old New Zealander told 7News in Australia.

But he’s alive and kickin’ thanks to a new treatment, noting: “I’ve just had a scan just now and there is no cancer in my body — that’s an extraordinary thing.”

Sam began his war with the deadly disease undergoing chemotherapy, which he describes as making him “miserable,” but at least keeping him alive.

Then at one chilling point, the chemo stopped working and “I was at a loss … it looked like I was on the way out.”

In his desperate battle with the Grim Reaper, he turned to something new, a clinical trial for a CAR T-cell therapy.

The treatment is a personalized form of immunotherapy where the patient’s blood cells are altered on a genetic level to seek and destroy the cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.

But it was a brand-new, untested cure where he says he was literally the No. 1 guinea pig.

“I think I was first out of the block and I think the term for me was ‘Patient Zero,'” he added on Instagram.

“We were sailing into uncharted waters. No one knew exactly what we could expect,” he continued on social media of his trial.

While he’s tempted to describe his survival as miraculous, he says “of course, it is not a miracle, it is science at its best.

“And [about] a lot of people who care deeply about their work and their patients. I am immensely grateful.”

Now, he’s supporting Australia’s Snowdome Foundation, a nonprofit working for blood cancer patients.

And he’s rarin’ to get back to battling dinosaurs, adding: “It’s time I did another movie.”