The new Netflix documentary regarding the Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones includes a surprising hint that, on further questioning, led to a stunning revelation.
During the fifth episode of America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys, Jones says that he underwent treatment at the MD Anderson Cancer Center “about a dozen years ago.”
Asked for more details by the Dallas Morning News, Jones said he had stage 4 melanoma in 2010.
At stage 4, cancer has spread to other organs. For melanoma, that can be the brain, lungs, liver, or gastrointestinal tract.
“I was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1 [therapy],” Jones said. “I went into trials for that PD-1 and it has been one of the great medicines.”
Per the News, PD-1 means Programmed Cell Death Protein 1. The therapy helps the immune system “fight cancer cells by blocking PD-1, thus enabling T cells to better recognize and destroy cancer cells.”
Added Jones: “I now have no tumors.”
The topic came up because Jones explained he was given this advice by a doctor at MD Anderson: “You need to do a lot of meditation. Make a list of 10 people who can just boil your blood. Start with the one at the top and wish for them the greatest things you can wish for. . . . At No. 1, I wrote down the name ‘Jimmy Johnson.’”
Who else made the list? A few weeks later, Jones told the doctor, “‘I can’t get past that first mother.’”
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