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NBA superstar Alonzo Mourning shares his battle with Prostate Cancer – University of Miami Health System

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Oct 20, 2024, 15:53

NBA superstar Alonzo Mourning shares his battle with Prostate Cancer – University of Miami Health System

University of Miami Health System posted on X:

“In this Focusing On You segment, NBA superstar and Miami Heat icon Alonzo Mourning shares his battle with Prostate Cancer. He’s teamed up with Dr. Sanoj Punnen, a urologist at the Desai Sethi Urology Institute, to encourage all men to get their screenings.

Listen in!”

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Estela Rodriguez, Associate Director of Community Outreach and Co-Lead of Thoracic Site Disease Group of the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, shared this post on X adding:

“Thank you Alonzo Mourning for sharing your story to educate more men about prostate cancer.”

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center also shared this post on X and added:

“We are so grateful that all across University of Miami are supporting Sylvester’s mission to reduce the cancer burden in our incredible community and beyond! Tune in as former NBA and Miami Heat player Alonzo Mourning shares his Prostate Cancer journey.”

Alonzo Mourning: Over the years, men have been taught to just tough it up, tough it out, be a man, suck it up, you’ll be okay, wrap it up, take a pill, whatever you need to do, you know, you’ll be all right. You know, that’s not the approach to take. It’s just really not.
I would take a physical every six months. Through this process, they noticed that my PSA levels were going up.
Sanoj Punnen: It ended up being high-grade cancer, and we were able to see it. And for his, it was just in the area where the MRI picked it up, so very confined to the prostate. Easily could have been missed if he didn’t do his PSA.
Alonzo Mourning: In order for you to overcome these type of health obstacles in your life, you’ve got to have an amazing team, you know. So I had a chance to experience the care at Desai Sethi Urology Institute. They put me on the right path in helping me understand my options.