Jerry Jones reveals battle with stage four cancer, ‘miracle’ cure

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones revealed he overcame Stage 4 cancer, per Brad Townsend of the Dallas Morning News. Jones said he had melanoma for a decade and an experimental trial drug is what saved his life.

Jones, 82, heads into the 2025 season with the Cowboys looking to return to the playoffs and make a run. Dallas is searching for their first Super Bowl title since Super Bowl XXX from the 1995-96 season.

Per the report, Jones was diagnosed in 2010 and then he began treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Over the course of the last decade-plus, he had four surgeries: two lung surgeries and two lymph node surgeries.

As far as the experimental trial drug, Jones took “PD-1 (therapy)” and it was “one of the great medicines.” The Cowboys’ owner did not reveal when he started the drug.

Jones told Townsend that he now has “no tumors.” It was a welcome sign for the long time executive. Jones also alluded to undergoing cancer treatments “about a dozen years ago” in Netflix’s America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys documentary.

Right now, Jones has a different battle on his hands. Right now, it’s off the field with star pass rusher Micah Parsons, amid a contract dispute. Jones even turned back the clock when discussing it.

At one point, the Emmitt Smith situation was brought up by the Dallas Cowboys’ owner/general manager. All the way back in 1993, Smith did not have a contract entering the season and wound up missing two games.

Smith is not a fan of the comparison, though. Especially since some members of the media have run with the idea, comparing him and Parsons. He decided to set the record straight on Monday night, explaining how there was no opportunity for him to even get inside the facility.

“I keep trying to tell people there’s a marketing play and there’s a reality play,” Parsons said. ” … The media never should have called me a holdout because I didn’t have a contract. If I take your contract from you right now from the place you work, you can’t come back into the building. They take your keycard and everything. You can’t come back into the building. And you have no job then. But if I give you a job and you get a key fob, you can get into the building.

“He has another year on his contract. There is a distinct difference… I’m here to set the record straight.”