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The owner of the Dallas Cowboys team, Jerry Jones, revealed that he had overcome an out of the field when he hoped that the organization he helped to make one of the most precious in sport reaches the Super Bowl.
Jones revealed in an interview with the Dallas Morning News that he had received a diagnosis of melanoma skin cancer from stage 4 in June 2010 and started treatment shortly after. The report noted that Jones had slightly mentioned cancer treatments “a dozen years ago” during one of the episodes of Netflix documentation “America’s Team: The Gambeler and His Cowboys”.
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The owner of Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones, represents the national anthem during the opening ceremonies of the Ridge Fields training camp in River Ridge in Oxnard, California, July 26, 2025. (Images Kirby Lee / Imagn)
“I was saved by fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle (drug) called PD-1 (therapy),” he told The Morning News. “I went on a test for this PD-1 and it was one of the great drugs.
“I no longer have tumors.”
Jones said he had undergone four surgeries in the past 10 years – two on his lungs and two to cope with his lymph nodes.
Melanoma is a less common form of skin cancer which is more dangerous than other varieties because it is much more likely to spread to other parts of the body if it is not found and treated early, according to the American Cancer Society.
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Jerry Jones, owner of Dallas Cowboys, before the match against Washington commanders at Stade AT&T on January 5, 2025. (Images Kevin Jairaj-Imagn)
The Melanoma Research Alliance said that stage 4 means that “metastasized (propagated) cancer in other places in the body, such as the brain, the lungs, the liver or the gastrointestinal (GI)”.
“The 5 -year survival rate in 2018 for metastatic melanoma (stage IV) is 22.5%,” said the research organization on its website.
Jones, 82, is expected to embark on another NFL season as Cowboys chief.
Sportico revealed its NFL assessments on Wednesday with cowboys leading the league to $ 12.8 billion.
