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New York Post
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones reveals decade-long stage 4 cancer fight — and how he survived
Jerry Jones is lifting the lid on his secret battle with cancer. The loquacious Dallas Cowboys owner, 82, told The Dallas Morning News he was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma in June 2010 and survived a decade-long fight thanks to an experimental drug. 'I was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1 [therapy],' Jones told the outlet. 'I went into trials for that PD-1, and it has been one of the great medicines. Advertisement 'I now have no tumors.' Jerry Jones (c.) and wife Eugenia (second from left) with children Stephen (l.), Charlotte (second from r.) and Jerry Jr. (r.) at the premiere of Netflix's 'America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys' on Aug. 11, 2025. AFP via Getty Images Jones made a reference to getting cancer treatment 'about a dozen years ago' in the Netflix docuseries 'America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys.' He began treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, but did not say when he started taking PD-1, which is short for Programmed Cell Death Protein 1. Advertisement In the decade after his diagnosis, Jones told the Morning News he had two lung surgeries and two lymph node surgeries. Jones' Cowboys are now worth $12.8 billion, tops in the NFL, according to valuations released by Sportico on Wednesday. That's a 24 percent increase from last year. Jerry Jones in 2010. Tribune News Service via Getty I Advertisement Jones purchased the franchise for $140 million in 1989. While the Cowboys won three Super Bowls in four seasons from 1992-95, they have not reached the NFC Championship game since that last Super Bowl win.
NBC Sports
4 days ago
- Health
- NBC Sports
Jerry Jones says he survived stage 4 melanoma in 2010
The new Netflix documentary regarding the Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones includes a surprising hint that, on further questioning, led to a stunning revelation. During the fifth episode of America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys, Jones says that he underwent treatment at the MD Anderson Cancer Center 'about a dozen years ago.' Asked for more details by the Dallas Morning News, Jones said he had stage 4 melanoma in 2010. At stage 4, cancer has spread to other organs. For melanoma, that can be the brain, lungs, liver, or gastrointestinal tract. 'I was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1 [therapy],' Jones said. 'I went into trials for that PD-1 and it has been one of the great medicines.' Per the News, PD-1 means Programmed Cell Death Protein 1. The therapy helps the immune system 'fight cancer cells by blocking PD-1, thus enabling T cells to better recognize and destroy cancer cells.' Added Jones: 'I now have no tumors.' The topic came up because Jones explained he was given this advice by a doctor at MD Anderson: 'You need to do a lot of meditation. Make a list of 10 people who can just boil your blood. Start with the one at the top and wish for them the greatest things you can wish for. . . . At No. 1, I wrote down the name 'Jimmy Johnson.'' Who else made the list? A few weeks later, Jones told the doctor, ''I can't get past that first mother.'' It's important, and easy, to see a dermatologist on a regular basis to have skin checked for suspicious moles. And you can check yourself for anything new or unusual.
