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Tod Archer
Oxonard, California – Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones said that he has dealt with stage 4 melanoma and an experimental test drug has saved his life.
In the fifth episode of Netflix Documentary “America’s Team: The Jumble and Hiz Cowboy”, who debuts next week, 82 -year -old Jones spoke about the treatment of cancer at MD Anderson in Houston. However, he did not reveal the details of treatment and what was for it.
“I survived a great treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] Is called PD -1 [therapy], Jones told Dallas Morning News On Tuesday. “I went into tests for that PD -1, and it has been one of the great drugs. I no longer have a tumor.”
Jones told the paper that he came to know in June 2010 and then started treatment soon. In the next 10 years, he said, he had two lung surgery and two lymph node surgery. Stage 4 melanoma refers to skin cancer which is metastasized in other parts of the body.
According to the American Cancer Society, PD -1 therapy -or programmed cell death -1- “helps identify the immune system and attack cancer cells.”
Jones said after Wednesday’s practice, “You don’t like to think about your mortality, but I was very lucky for some great people who sent me in the right direction.” “I got to be a part of a test that was predicted. It actually worked. It is called PD -1 and it is actually, in fact, actually worked.
“It ate my hips. I had to change both hips because it was thicker on your bones, but moreover, I am proud to sit here with you and we are getting to do what we do. [mortality] Was behind your mind. ,
A phase 4 melanoma diagnosis is almost always used for fatal and treatment, aims to only slow down the disease, control symptoms and possibly expand existence. But recently medical progression-which includes immunotherapy and targeted checkpoint inhibitors, which help the body’s T-cells fight cancer-is expected that the disease can be brought under control for years.
Five years of survival rate in advanced cases can be about 50%, some for a long time and some have no signal of cancer after treatment.
MD Anderson is world famous for cancer treatment and clinical trials.
“it just [teaches] You have a lot about your health, how important it is and it does not discriminate against anyone, “Cowboy coach Brian Shotenhaimer said, who revealed his fight with thyroid cancer on Wednesday when he was 28 and was coaching Chargers,
Shotenhaimer was diagnosed during the 2002 training camp and within 72 hours, he was at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to remove his thyroid and 17 lymph nodes for surgery.
“I certainly was less serious. … Nothing like Stage 4, what to do to Jerry and other people, as is nothing,” Shotenheimer said. “But you hear the word ‘cancer’, and it scares hell with you.”
Surgery, which thenCommanders The owner Daniel snider helped arranate, went well, although Shotenheimer’s neck is a mark that serves as a daily reminder.
“I am glad Jerry shared it because I think it gives hope to the people,” Shotenheimer said. “It gives people the strength to say,” Okay, you can beat it. You can do it. ” And when you have that type of diagnosis, there is that hope and ability to think, ‘I can fight through it and maybe I can hold a break and be lucky,’ this is great. ,
PD -1 therapy treatment came to light after telling about Jones that the attention would serve him well and list 10 people who “boil your blood” and best wishes to them well. Jones wrote the name of his former head coach, Jimmy Johnson, first.
After a long time, while meeting the doctor, he was asked how the attention was helping, he said with a little smile, “I can’t do that first mother …”
The Netflix series weaves Joans’ coubi’s purchase, Tom Landry firing, recruitment of Johnson and the buying of the 1990s Cowboy, weaving in the life story of Jones.
ABC News contributed to this report.
