{"id":1960897,"date":"2025-08-14T22:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1960897"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:03:27","slug":"jerry-jones-credits-experimental-drug-for-saving-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jerry-jones-credits-experimental-drug-for-saving-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones Credits Experimental Drug for Saving His Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/meet-the-6-rookies-signed-to-the-dallas-cowboys-cheerleading-squad\/\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> owner <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/denzel-washington-rips-cowboys-jerry-jones-thinking-about-his-pocket\/\"><strong>Jerry Jones<\/strong><\/a> credits an experimental drug for saving his life after he was diagnosed with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/teddi-mellencamp-reacts-to-brandon-blackstocks-death-from-melanoma\/\">stage 4 melanoma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1 [therapy],\u201d Jones, 82, told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/cowboys\/2025\/08\/13\/dallas-cowboys-jerry-jones-cancer-stage-4-four-melanoma-reveal-nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Dallas Morning News<\/em><\/a> in a story published Wednesday, August 13. \u201cI went into trials for that PD-1, and it has been one of the great medicines. I now have no tumors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The revelation comes before the Tuesday, August 19, release of the Netflix documentary <em>America\u2019s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys<\/em>. In the series, Jones talks about undergoing cancer treatments at MD Anderson in Houston, but does not offer specifics.<\/p>\n<p>He told the <em>Dallas Morning News<\/em> that his diagnosis came in 2010 and that over the next 10 years, he underwent two lung surgeries and two lymph node surgeries. While melanoma refers to skin cancer, the stage 4 label indicates it had metastasized to other parts of the body.<\/p>\n<p>A <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mskcc.org\/news\/changing-melanoma-landscape-how-research-has-improved-outlook-people-advanced-disease\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center<\/a> study published in 2024 suggested a five-year survival rate for those with stage 4 melanoma could be as high as 50 percent thanks to experimental treatments, up from the 35 percent rate listed on the American Cancer Society\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/types\/melanoma-skin-cancer\/detection-diagnosis-staging\/survival-rates-for-melanoma-skin-cancer-by-stage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t like to think about your mortality, but I was so fortunate to have some great people that sent me in the right direction,\u201d Jones told the media after the Cowboys practiced on Wednesday. \u201cI got to be a part of a trial that was propitious. It really worked. It\u2019s called PD-1, and it really, really, really worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PD-1, or programmed cell death 1, is a protein found on T cells. PD-1 therapy helps patients\u2019 immune systems block the protein, which enables T cells to recognize and attack cancer cells.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/ex-nfl-star-battling-rare-form-of-cancer-launches-gofundme-for-help\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/ex-nfl-star-battling-rare-form-of-cancer-launches-gofundme-for-help\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Former NFL Star Battling Rare Form of Cancer, Launches GoFundMe for Help<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tFormer NFL linebacker and special teams star Bryan Braman is exploring treatment options as he battles a rare form of cancer. Braman, 38, faces an \u201cextremely serious\u201d medical condition, according to his longtime agent Sean Stellato.\u00a0 Stellato told Houston\u2019s KPRC 2 that Braman has been diagnosed with a \u201crare, aggressive and recurring form of cancer,\u201d [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt ate my hips up,\u201d Jones said of his treatment. \u201cI had to have both hips replaced because it was rough on your bones, but other than that, I\u2019m so proud to get to be sitting here with you guys and be getting to do what we do. \u2026 But [mortality] was in the back of your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First-year Cowboys coach <strong>Brian Schottenheimer<\/strong>, a cancer survivor himself, told reporters that he was glad Jones shared his story because it \u201cgives people hope.\u201d Schottenheimer, 51, had surgery to treat thyroid cancer at age 28 when he was an assistant coach for the San Diego Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives people the strength to say, \u2018OK, you can beat this. You can do that,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd when you have that type of diagnosis, to have that hope and that ability to think, \u2018I can fight through this and maybe I can catch a break and get lucky,\u2019 that\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones credits an experimental drug for saving his life after he was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma. \u201cI was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1 [therapy],\u201d Jones, 82, told The Dallas Morning News in a story published Wednesday, August 13. \u201cI went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1960898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[30162,24003,21848],"class_list":["post-1960897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-health","tag-celebrity-news","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Jerry-Jones-Credits-Experimental-Drug-for-Saving-His-Life.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}