Dwyane Wade Detailed kidney surgery to remove cancer tumor

Dwyane Wade was diagnosed cancer At the end of 2023, which required removal of surgery.

“This past calendar year was probably unexpected for the first time in my life,” Wade, 43, on Thursday, January 30, the episode of his “The Why” Podcast. “When you go through physical elements you can’t feel, you don’t see because I’m an athlete who was quite healthy.” … After retirement, you will not receive the same checks (or) physics. ”

According to Wade, he “took several years off” annual meetings and saw a doctor only after turning 40.

“I went inside and I was glad,” Dr., I want to know everything about my head to the heel. AND I have some things I feel. I got some stomach problems, ”Wade recalled. “In this process of checking certain convulsions I feel at the time and control why my piss comes out slowly (a) why my stream is not strong (a) why is a little weak, I ask these questions now because my father passed something .

Wade subsequently underwent scanning the whole body that indicated that “his) real kidney was something.”

“I didn’t go to the kidney, so what I had on the kidney.” was a tumor,“The NBA star remembered. “It was (something) that could be biopered that they could remove surgically.”

Wade’s doctor then informed him that he needed kidney surgery to pull out the tumor. After gaining a second opinion, Wade made a “personal decision” to go under the knife to avoid the spread of cancer inside his body.

“I decided to undergo surgery 18 December 2023,” Wade said. “My father was there to go to the hospital.” My wife (Gabrielle Union) He was there when I woke up. You can only have two people in the hospital. ”

He added: “It is obvious that at the age of 41 (I am A) quite a healthy person who had cancer. Thank God that I did the operation because the tumor was cancer. So I have one kidney and I have other kidneys that are (on) 60 percent. They took 40 percent of my kidneys to make sure they could get all cancer. ”

According to Wade, his operation was probably the first time His family and his children “He saw (him) weak.” (Wade shares children Zaire (22 years) and Zaya, 17 years old, with ex -wife SIVAUGHN FUNCHESson Xavier, 10, with ex Just metoyer and daughter Kaavia, 6, with his wife Union, 52.)

“The moment was probably the weakest point I’ve ever felt in my life,” he said. “I was alone, I fought.” One thing you never want to do as a person … is (for) your family to see you weak. It’s hard. ”

Wade further shared that he had “lucky” His family “jumped” help his healing.

“I saw everyone appearing for me and they were for me,” Wade said. “In this process of my weakness, I found strength in my family, my friends, in my group.”

Wade has recovered since then and promised to “do things differently” in his life.

“I came out of it and I did things differently, so I attacked my life.” I’m not expecting, ”he concluded.