OXNARD, Calif. -- 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, h