Wade was left with 40% of his right kidney after the surgery — and he said on his podcast that it was a challenge for him in many ways.

Former NBA star Dwyane Wade revealed that he had a kidney removed in 2023 due to a cancerous mass. The former star revealed this on The Way with Dwyane Wade. "So what I had on my kidney was a cyst tumor but it was not nothing that could be biopsied,

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.