(NEXSTAR) – Scott Adams, the creator of the ‘Dilbert’ comic strip, has revealed he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones, he revealed Monday.
Adams, 67, brought up the diagnosis during a stream on his Rumble account, while discussing former President Joe Biden’s similar prostate cancer diagnosis.
“I’ve decided that today’s the day that I’m going to take the opportunity, since a lot of you are here, to make an announcement of my own,” Adams said during his podcast. “Some of you have already guessed, so this won’t surprise you all. But I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has.”
“But I’ve had it longer than he’s had it. Well, longer than he’s admitted having it,” Adams added. “So my life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.”
Adams told viewers that he had been using a walker for months due to a tumor near his spine and was in near-constant pain, describing the condition as “intolerable.”
“Every day is a nightmare, and evening is even worse,” he said.
Adams said he wasn’t going to delve into the treatments he had undergone, but mentioned that he did try using anti-parasitic medications including ivermectin and fenbendazole, to no effect.
He also indicated that since he lives in California, he plans to take advantage of aid-in-dying drugs after he settles his affairs.
Adams, 67, has made headlines for his political views and controversial statements in the past, including his support and defense of President Trump. His comic strip “Dilbert” was also dropped by hundreds of newspapers in 2023 after he said in a YouTube post that he didn’t feel it “makes any sense as a white citizen of America to try to help Black citizens anymore,” and called Black Americans a “hate group.” His comments came in response to a Rasmussen poll that said 26% of Black respondents felt it wasn’t “OK to be white,” but Adams later claimed his statements were taken out of context, and that he was “intentionally” trying to be controversial.
Adams, in his post on Rumble, shared words of support for former President Biden.
“I’d like to extend my respect and compassion and sympathy for the ex-president and his family, because they’re going to be going through an especially tough time,” he said.
Adams also said it was “hard to watch” Biden’s online critics show him no sympathy, and suggested he expected to face the same treatment from his own critics.
“All of my enemies — in other words, people who are Democrats, mostly — are going to come after me pretty hard,” he claimed.
Biden, 82, was diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of prostate cancer on Friday, his office revealed over the weekend. One of the most common forms of cancer to afflict men in the U.S., prostate cancer is treatable, but survival rates fall dramatically if the cancer has metastasized, according to the American Cancer Society.
