Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Reveals “Miracle Drugs” Saved His Life After Being Diagnosed With Stage 4 Cancer

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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has revealed that an experimental trial drug saved his life.

Jones was previously diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, but right after taking drugs provided for him in an experimental trial, his cancerous tumors disappeared.

ESPN had more details to report on Jones’ miraculous recovery:

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said that he has dealt with Stage 4 melanoma and that an experimental trial drug saved his life.

In the fifth episode of the Netflix documentary “America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys” that debuts next week, Jones, 82, talked about undergoing cancer treatments at MD Anderson in Houston. However, he didn’t reveal 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. “I went into trials for that PD-1, and it has been one of the great medicines. I now have no tumors.”

Jones told the paper he was diagnosed in June 2010 and began treatment soon thereafter. Over the next 10 years, he said, he had two lung surgeries and two lymph node surgeries. Stage 4 melanoma refers to skin cancer that has metastasized to other parts of the body.

According to the American Cancer Society, PD-1 therapy — or programmed cell death-1 — helps “the immune system recognize, and attack cancer cells.”

“You don’t like to think about your mortality, but I was so fortunate to have some great people that sent me in the right direction,” Jones said after Wednesday’s practice. “I got to be a part of a trial that was propitious. It really worked. It’s called PD-1 and it really, really, really worked.

“It ate my hips up. I had to have both hips replaced because it was rough on your bones, but other than that, I’m so proud to get to be sitting here with you guys and be getting to do what we do. … But [mortality] was in the back of your mind.”

Jerry Jones just revealed he was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma over a decade and a half ago — but he beat it with the help of an experimental drug.

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The Western Journal reported the Cowboys’ head coach is also a cancer survivor:

First-year Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer described Jones’ fight with cancer as an “amazing story” and praised him for going public.

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“I’m glad that Jerry shared it, just because I think it gives people hope,” Schottenheimer said Wednesday. “It gives people the strength to say, … ‘Hey, you can beat this.’”

Schottenheimer, 51, used his last news conference of the Cowboys’ nearly month-long stay in Southern California to talk about his own cancer diagnosis. He underwent surgery in 2003 for thyroid cancer at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Then-Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder helped arrange Schottenheimer’s treatment two years after firing his father, Marty Schottenheimer, as coach. Brian Schottenheimer was Washington’s quarterbacks coach during the 2001 season, the same year Snyder himself was treated for thyroid cancer.