Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he survived a stage 4 cancer battle that lasted more than a decade
Jones told the Dallas Morning News that he beat stage 4 melanoma. The Cowboys owner's battle lasted more than a decade, he said, and included four surgeries.
"I now have no tumors," Jones, who is 82 years old, told the Dallas Morning News.
Jones told the Dallas Morning News the initial diagnosis came in 2010. Over the next 10 years he had four surgeries, two on his lungs and two on his lymph nodes. He credited the experimental drug PD-1 — short for Programmed Cell Death Protein 1 — for his recovery.
'I was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1 [therapy],' Jones said, via the Morning News. 'I went into trials for that PD-1 and it has been one of the great medicines."
In an episode of the soon to be released Netflix series "America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys," Jones mentioned having cancer treatments, leading the Dallas Morning News to ask him about it in an interview.
Jones is the NFL's most visible owner, and his Cowboys are the most valuable sports franchise in the world. They're the first sports team to pass the $10 billion mark in Forbes' annual survey. In 2017 — when, according to Jones, he was still fighting stage 4 cancer — he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Jones has no problem seeking out the media for attention on practically any matters regarding his team. But his long battle against cancer was out of the spotlight, until now.
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