Having kept the matter private including during his interview sessions when a statue of his likeness was unveiled on the steps of the Kaseya Center in October, Miami Heat icon Dwyane Wade revealed on his podcast this week that he had a cancerous tumor removed from his kidney on Dec.

Hall of Fame player Dwyane Wade says doctors performed a December 2023 surgery on his kidney to remove a tumor later determined to be cancerous.

Heat legend Dwyane Wade revealed on his podcast that he had nearly half of one of his kidneys removed because of a cancerous tumor. Wade said the procedure, which removed 40 percent of his kidney, was done in December 2023 after doctors discovered a tumor on his right kidney.

Dwyane Wade recalled how a routine checkup turned into a life-changing cancer diagnosis that forced him to confront his own mortality.kidney.