Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he overcome stage 5 melanoma by using an experimental trial drug during the fifth episode of the Netflix docuseries America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys set to debut next week.
Jones, 82, said he underwent cancer treatments at MD Anderson in Houston, though he wouldn’t divulge on details of the treatment and what it was for.
“I was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1 [therapy],” Jones told the Dallas Morning News on Tuesday (August 12). “I went into trials for that PD-1 and it has been one of the great medicines. I now have no tumors.”
Jones said he was diagnosed in June 2010 and had previously undergone other treatments, which included two lung surgeries and two lymph surgeries during a 10-year span. Stage 4 melanoma is a skin cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.
PD-1 therapy (Programmed Cell Death Protein 1) is a procedure aimed to help “the immune system recognize, and attack cancer cells,” according to the American Cancer Society.
Jones is one of the most recognizable owners in professional sports, having purchased the Cowboys from Bum Bright in 1989 and also serves as the team’s president and general manager. Jones is a three-time Super Bowl champion and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a contributor in 2017.
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