Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, 82, reveals he beat stage 4 cancer

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones beat stage 4 cancer after battling the disease for a decade, the 82-year-old billionaire has revealed. 

Now Jones is crediting an experimental drug for saving his life from stage 4 melanoma. 

'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. 'I went into trials for that PD-1 and it has been one of the great medicines.

'I now have no tumors.' 

Jones underwent four surgeries over the last decade, include two on his lungs and two lymph node surgeries, the Morning News reports.

It’s unclear when he started the PD-1 [Programmed Cell Death Protein] experimental trial. The treatment is aimed at helping the human immune system fight cancer cells by blocking PD-1, thereby helping the all-important T cells to better recognize and combat cancer cells. 

A stage 4 melanoma diagnosis indicates skin cancer cells metastasized to other parts of the body. Typically patients with that diagnosis are given a five-year survival rate of 35 percent, according to The American Cancer Society.

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