Chesapeake native Alonzo Mourning, a former Miami Heat center and current Heat executive, is encouraging men to get screened for prostate cancer after a routine exam recently revealed he had the disease. Mourning, 54, told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that he underwent surgery in mid-March to remove his prostate following a diagnosis of Stage 3 prostate cancer. The former Indian River High School standout is now cancer free.
“What scares me about this disease is that there are so many men walking around feeling great and have that cancer in them and they don’t know it,” Mourning said to ESPN as part of a story released Monday. “The only way to find out is to get their blood tested and get their PSA checked. There are 3.
3 million men living in the U.S. with prostate cancer, and many don’t even know it.
I was one of those guys.” After a visit to his urologist in late 2022 revealed that Mourning’s PSA scores were rising, the doctor called for an MRI screening on his prostate. A rise in PSA (prostate-specific antigen) scores can be a sign of prostate cancer.
The MRI results then led to a biopsy in February, which produced the diagnosis of a high grade of prostate cancer. “I was in shock,” Mourning, a two-time All-Tidewater Boys Basketball Player of the Year, said to ESPN. “I can’t tell you enough about how well my body felt.
I was in top-notch shape — running sprints, strong. The doctor told me that he couldn’t believe I had had a kidney transplant. “My.
