Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones credits an experimental drug for saving his life after he was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma.

“I was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1 [therapy],” Jones, 82, told The Dallas Morning News in a story published Wednesday, August 13. “I went into trials for that PD-1, and it has been one of the great medicines. I now have no tumors.”

The revelation comes before the Tuesday, August 19, release of the Netflix documentary America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys. In the series, Jones talks about undergoing cancer treatments at MD Anderson in Houston, but does not offer specifics.

He told the Dallas Morning News that his diagnosis came in 2010 and that over the next 10 years, he underwent two lung surgeries

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