Overview

• Jones publicly revealed for the first time that he was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma in June 2010 and battled the disease for ten years.
• His care at MD Anderson Cancer Center included four surgeries—two on his lungs and two on his lymph nodes—over the course of his treatment.
• He said participation in a PD-1 trial was a “real miracle” that eradicated his tumors, and he currently has no detectable cancer.
• The disclosure stemmed from a remark in Netflix’s America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys, prompting follow-up reporting by The Dallas Morning NewsroPD-1, or Programmed Cell Death Protein 1, is a checkpoint inhibitor that enhances T-cell attack on cancer cells and has markedly improved survival rates for advanced melanoma.