The owner of the cowboys, Jerry Jones, reveals a battle of a decade with the diagnosis of stadium cancer

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The owner of Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones, has credited an experimental test drug for having managed to treat advanced melanoma when he disclosed his diagnosis of cancer publicly for the first time.

Jones revealed his illness in a documentary series, “America’s Team: The Gambeler and His Cowboys”, which will make his debut on Netflix next week. Jones, 82, then explained to the Dallas Morning News how he was initially diagnosed in June 2010 and had undergone two surgeries on his lung and two on his lymph nodes over the following 10 years after the skin cancer cells were metastasted to other parts of his body.

“Well, you don’t like to think about your mortality, but I was lucky to have great people who sent me in the right direction,” said Jones after training on Wednesday. “I have to be part of an essay that was conducive. It really worked. It’s called PD-1 (therapy), and it really really worked. ”

The first -year cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer described Jones’ fight with cancer as an “incredible story” and congratulated him to be made public.

“I’m glad Jerry has shared, just because I think it gives people hope,” said Schotenheimer on Wednesday. “It gives people the strength to say …” Hey, you can beat that. “”

Schottenheimer, 51, used his last press conference on the stay of cowboys in southern California to talk about his own cancer diagnosis. He underwent surgery in 2003 for thyroid cancer at Mayo Clinic de Rochester, Minnesota.

The owner of the Washington commanders, Dan Snyder, helped organize the treatment of Schottenheimer two years after having dismissed his father, Marty Schottenheimer, as a coach. Brian Schottenheimer was coach of the Washington quarters during the 2001 season, the same year Snyder himself was treated for thyroid cancer.

“This only discriminates for anyone,” said Schottenheimer. “And mine was certainly less serious, but I was 28 years old when I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Nothing like stage 4, nothing like Jerry and other people have to cross. But you hear this word” cancer “, and that scares you.”