Scott Adams, creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, revealed Monday his advanced prostate cancer diagnosis. The 67-year-old said the disease has spread to his bones and that he may not live past the summer.
Scott Adams shared the news during an episode of his online show “Coffee with Scott Adams,” while discussing President Joe Biden’s own prostate cancer diagnosis.
“I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones,” Adams said. “My life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.”
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He described his current condition as extremely painful and mentally exhausting. “The disease is already intolerable. I can tell you that I don’t have good days,” Adams said. “Every day is a nightmare, and evening is even worse.”
Adams explained that while he can still perform parts of his daily routine, such as hosting his show, he experiences constant pain that shifts throughout his body. He also noted that he has been using a walker to move around for several months.
This announcement comes just over a year after Adams faced backlash for racially charged remarks he made on the same show, leading hundreds of newspapers to drop his long-running comic strip.
During a February 2023 broadcast, Adams referenced a Rasmussen poll and said, “If nearly half of all Blacks are not okay with White people – according to this poll, not to me – that’s a hate group. That’s a hate group, and I don’t want anything to do with them.”
Adams began “Dilbert” in 1989, focusing on corporate office life and the frustrations of the modern workplace. The comic gained a large following for its satirical take on management and business culture. In recent years, he launched a follow-up version of the strip titled “Dilbert Reborn.”