Overview

• In Episode 5 of the upcoming Netflix series America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys, Jones’s offhand mention of cancer treatments “about a dozen years ago” led the Dallas Morning News to investigate his health history
• Jones revealed he was diagnosed with Stage 4 melanoma in June 2010 and immediately began treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston
• Over the next decade he underwent two lung surgeries and two lymph node surgeries before enrolling in a PD-1 immunotherapy trial, which he credits as “one of the great medicines”
• Medical studies show PD-1 and similar checkpoint inhibitors have raised five-year survival rates for advanced melanoma from roughly 35% to around 50%
• Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer hailed Jones’s disclosure as an “amazing story” that can inspire hope for others facing cancer