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.
“I now have no tumors.”
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.
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.
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.
