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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones secretly battled Stage 4 cancer for 10 years, he finally revealed this week.
Jones dropped a bombshell after the premiere of a new Netflix series about him, revealing that he beat stage 4 cancer with the help of an experimental drug.
The revelation came after The Dallas Morning News reached out to Jones and asked about a comment Jones made during Netflix’s Dallas Cowboys documentary, America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys, which will be released Aug. 19.
In the documentary, the Dallas Cowboys owner references undergoing cancer treatments “about a dozen years ago,” according to the publication.
The Dallas Morning News reached out to Jones, and he confirmed he was diagnosed with cancer in 2010.
Jerry Jones battled stage 4 melanoma for a decade and said that an experimental trial drug saved his life. The Cowboys owner’s battle lasted more than a decade, he said, and included four surgeries.
BREAKING: Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he survived a stage 4 cancer battle that lasted more than a decade and included four surgeries.
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“I now have no tumors,” the 82-year-old told the Dallas Morning News.
Jones had two surgeries on his lungs and two on his lymph nodes. He gave credit to 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.”
Jerry Jones has proven to survive cancer, but will his fan base survive him?
The Dallas Cowboys owner wants desperately to see his franchise get back to its winning ways. Unfortunately, the team cannot advance past the divisional round in the playoffs.
Along the way, some head-scratching decisions have caused the fan base to want him to sell the team. It will never happen.
In the end, Jerry wants to see at least one more Super Bowl before departing the Earth.
