‘I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer,” the cartoonist and podcaster said.
Scott Adams, the longtime cartoonist behind the “Dilbert” comic strip, said on May 19 that he has the same type of aggressive prostate cancer as former President Joe Biden and that he has only months to live.
Adams made the announcement during his “Coffee with Scott Adams” show on Rumble while talking about Biden’s diagnosis, which had been revealed a day earlier.
“I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has. I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones,” said Adams, who is a prominent supporter of President Donald Trump as well as a conservative commentator on X.
“My life expectancy is maybe this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.”
Adams, 67, added that the cancer “is already intolerable.”
“I can tell you that I don’t have good days. So if you are wondering, ‘Hey Scott, do you have any good days’? Nope. Nope. Every day is a nightmare and evening is even worse,” he said.
“I do have the ability to kind of get up for this part of the day, but I am in pain, and I’m always in pain. And the pain moves around to different parts of my body,” he said during the show. “I’ve been using a walker to walk for months now.”
Adams said he wouldn’t go into the details about treatments he’d undergone. However, he did mention that he attempted to use medications such as ivermectin and fenbendazole to no effect.
Adams had words of support for Biden and his family.
“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.
On Sunday, a Biden spokesperson confirmed that an aggressive form of prostate cancer had spread to the former president’s bones, meaning that it has metastasized. The American Cancer Society says that when a cancer metastasizes, the survival rate drops significantly.
“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive, which allows for effective management,” Biden’s office told media outlets. “The President and his family are reviewing treatment options with his physicians.”
