Cowboys’ Jerry Jones has ‘no tumors’ after melanoma battle

Jerry Jones received a diagnosis of stage 4 melanoma in 2010, but overcome it with the help of an experimental test drug, Dallas Cowboys revealed this week.

“I was saved by fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1 [therapy]”Said Jones at Dallas Morning News on Tuesday.” I was trying for this PD-1 and this was one of the great drugs.

“I have no more tumors.”

Jones told The Morning News that he had received a cancer diagnosis in June 2010 and started treatment at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston shortly after. During the decade that followed, said Jones, he underwent pulmonary surgery twice and surgery of the lymph nodes twice.

He did not indicate when he started PD-1 therapy.

According to the American Cancer Society, PD -1 is a protein that acts as an “out of it” to prevent certain immune cells – T cells – from attacking normal cells. PD-1 inhibitor treatment blocks this protein to help the immune system to better find and attack cancer cells.

Jones, 82, is president and managing director of cowboys in addition to his role as owner. The first public mention of his diagnosis seems to have come during episode 5 of Netflix documentation “America’s Team: The Gambeler and His Cowboys”, which will be released on Tuesday.

While speaking to an anecdote of a completely different subject – his relationship with the former coach of the cowboys Jimmy Johnson – Jones not mentioning that “about 12 years ago … I had a treatment against cancer” at MD ANDERSON.

The Morning News followed this comment during his wider interview with Jones.