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Jerry Jones reveals scary health diagnosis
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had a serious health crisis nearly 20 years ago. He was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer back in 2010 and had battled the disease for almost a decade.
According to the Dallas Morning News, he had stage 4 melanoma and an experimental trial drug saved his life.
“I was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1 [therapy],” the 82-year-old Jones said. “I went into trials for that PD-1, and it has been one of the great medicines. “I now have no tumors.”
Normally, with stage 4 cancer, that signifies that a cancer patient may be near death.
Jones says he found out he had cancer in June 2010 and started to receive treatment right away. During that time,