Gabrielle Union Shares Update on Dwyane Wade After He Gets Cancerous Tumor Removed From Kidney

The former Miami Heat member—also dad to four other kids: nephew Dahveon Morris, 23; Zaire Wade, 22, and Zaya Wade, 17, with ex-wife Siovaughn Funches; and Xavier with ex Aja Metoyer—first shared his diagnosis on his self-titled podcast last month, noting he originally went to the doctor for uncomfortable cramping in his stomach and issues with his urine.

“I was like, ‘Doc, I want to know everything about my body,’” Dwyane, 43, recalled of his visit at the time. “Because I did the full body scan, they were able to see my entire insides [and that] something was on my kidney.”

He further explained that he had a cyst on his kidney and that it needed to be “surgically removed,” since it was too risky to go through a biopsy. “I have one kidney and have another that’s 60 percent,” he added. “They took 40 percent of my kidney to make sure they can get all of the cancer off it.”