Actor Tom Long has made a “miracle” recovery from blood cancer and is now in remission after previously being given just months to live. CREDIT: The Project

Actor Tom Long has made a “miracle” recovery from blood cancer and is now in remission after previously being given just months to live.

Earlier this year the SeaChange star made a last-ditch attempt to beat the terminal illness, travelling to the US to take part in a medical trial which could reboot his immune system.

Speaking to The Sunday Project’s Lisa Wilkinson, Long — who looked worlds away from his frail TV appearance earlier this year — said the trial treatment had acted like a “complete exorcism”.

“It was like everything was being purged out of my body, psychologically and physically,” he said.

While the trial treatment initially saw him in and out of hospitals fighting infections as his immune system rebooted, everything changed late last month.

“We were having a coffee at our favourite coffee place and I got a phone call from Dr Damian Green, who was heading the trial in Seattle, and he just said that I had nothing in the bone marrow … No sign of it, zilch,” an emotional Long said.

Long’s haematologist Professor Miles Prince confirmed the actor’s treatment had been “incredibly successful” and he was now in remission.

“Is Tom cured? I don’t know. But I can tell you if you go back to the original CAR T-cell therapy patients, who had acute leukaemia, they were considered incurable and a lot of them are still alive today,” Professor Prince told The Sunday Project.

Long’s family are understandably over the moon with his recovery, with the actor’s son Ariel saying his dad has shown amazing inner strength.

“Does it feel like it’s a miracle, what’s happened?” Wilkinson asked.

“Oh yeah,” Ariel replied, while Long’s stepson Satchmo added: “Definitely, I didn’t think it’d ever happen.”

Considering himself incredibly lucky, Long now wants to help other Australians access the potentially lifesaving trial.

It’s currently only available for two types of cancer and publicly funded for children and young adults — and costs close to $600,000 for everyone else.

“Oh without a doubt, it’s saved my life absolutely,” Long said. “I was a man with no hope really, not much, very limited and now I can reframe and repurpose my life and it doesn’t have to be about cancer, I can go and focus on what I want to do.”

Last year Long had been given a terminal diagnosis after battling multiple myeloma — a form of blood cancer — for the last seven years.

He had undergone bone marrow transplants, chemotherapy and natural therapies in a bid to beat the cancer, whose sufferers typically die with two to three years of diagnosis.

Earlier this year, Long revealed to The Sunday Project that he had been given just three months to live by doctors in December 2018.

Long told Wilkinson he had entered palliative care but had been selected to take part in the US medical trial.

“My chances elsewhere are not that good, so I don’t really have a choice,” he said of the trial.

“I’m very aware that I could be taken any time, but it’s the hope I think. I go for hope.”

Long’s interview in March was the first time he had appeared in public since his illness forced him to stop acting seven years ago.

Famous for roles in SeaChange, The Dish, Two Hands and The Book of Revelation, Long collapsed on stage in 2012 during a performance at the Sydney Opera House.

According to eyewitnesses, the “awful moment” that saw Long’s cast members “carry him out” to an ambulance.

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