'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams says he's dying of 'the same cancer that Joe Biden has'

Cartoonist Scott Adams, pictured successful 2014, said Monday he metastatic prostate crab and does not expect to past nan summer. Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images hide caption

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Dilbert creator Scott Adams announced connected Monday that he has metastatic prostate crab and only months to live.

The arguable cartoonist said connected a YouTube livestream that erstwhile President Joe Biden's recent diagnosis — of an "aggressive form" of prostate crab that has dispersed to his bones — prompted him to stock his own.

"I person nan aforesaid crab that Joe Biden has. I besides person prostate crab that has besides dispersed to my bones, but I've had it longer than he's had it — good longer than he's admitted having it," Adams said. "I expect to beryllium checking retired from this domain sometime this summer."

Biden's diagnosis, announced Sunday, was initially met pinch a bipartisan activity of sympathy and well-wishes. But connected Monday, President Trump and his friends began to push nan narrative, without evidence, that Biden had intentionally withheld his diagnosis.

Adams — who has agelong been a vocal Trump protagonist — didn't sanction names but said it was difficult to watch immoderate peoples' deficiency of sympathy for Biden, "especially because nan nationalist has each decided to go prostate experts."

"I'd for illustration to widen my respect and compassion for nan ex-president and his family because they're going done an particularly reliable time," Adams added. "It's a unspeakable disease."

Adams called his information "intolerable," saying he's been utilizing a walker for months and is "always successful pain" that moves to different parts of his body. He said his greeting show, Real Coffee pinch Scott Adams, is nan only point he does during nan day, and he plans to proceed it for arsenic agelong arsenic possible.

"If you're wondering if I'll get better, nan reply is no, it will only get worse," he said. "There's only 1 guidance this goes now."

Prostate crab is nan astir communal crab among men successful nan U.S. aft tegument crab and nan second-leading origin of crab decease successful American men. While it can often beryllium treated successfully and has an wide five-year endurance complaint of 97%, that number is overmuch little successful cases wherever nan crab has dispersed to different parts of nan body.

Adams did not spell into item astir his treatments, different than saying nan anti-parasitic medications ivermectin and fenbendazole did not activity for him. There is no grounds to support nan claims that ivermectin — which was falsely touted arsenic a curen for COVID-19 — tin dainty cancer. As a California resident, he referred to nan state's End of Life Option Act arsenic "an option." Adams antecedently advocated for transition of nan law, which allows doctors to prescribe an aid-in-dying supplier to definite terminally sick patients.

It is not clear erstwhile Adams, 67, was initially diagnosed pinch cancer. He said he had avoided sharing nan news because "once you spell public, you're conscionable nan dying crab guy." He said he was besides waiting for his step-daughter's wedding, which has since happened, and saw Biden's test arsenic an opportunity to travel forward.

"When Joe Biden went nationalist pinch his situation, I thought to myself, 'You cognize what, I'm going to descent nether his story, and he's going to return distant a batch of nan attention' because, you know, ex-president," he explained. "If you're reasoning astir prostate cancer, you're going to beryllium reasoning astir him arsenic overmuch arsenic me, truthful it conscionable takes a small of nan power away."

Adams roseate to fame successful nan 1990s pinch his syndicated comic portion Dilbert, an award-winning satire of firm civilization starring its eponymous white-collar engineer. It appeared successful immoderate 2,000 newspapers successful 65 countries earlier Adams' arguable comments astir title prompted its widespread cancellation successful 2023.

Over nan years, Adams has written respective novels and nonfiction books unrelated to Dilbert and weighs successful connected societal and governmental events connected his long-running YouTube program, which has immoderate 174,000 subscribers.

He opened 1 of those livestreams successful February 2023 by talking astir a nationalist sentiment canvass asking readers whether they work together pinch "It's OK to beryllium white," which is considered an alt-right slogan. In his response, he branded Black group a "hate group," a connection he later called "a hyperbole" but continued to defend.

Cartoonists crossed nan state applauded publishers and editors for holding Adams accountable, pointing to problematic comments he had made successful nan past.

He previously questioned nan decease toll of nan Holocaust, said he had lost aggregate jobs for being achromatic and falsely claimed that group who didn't get vaccinated against COVID-19 "clearly are nan winners" of nan pandemic (he acknowledged getting vaccinated successful Monday's video). Dozens of newspapers dropped nan strip successful 2022 aft Adams introduced its first Black characteristic and veered into anti-woke plotlines.

On Monday, citing nan guidance to Biden's diagnosis, Adams said he was bracing for a likewise mixed consequence and hoped to "reduce nan clip that group were being unspeakable to maine online."

"My enemies — successful different words, group who are Democrats, mostly — are going to travel aft maine beautiful hard, truthful I person to put up pinch that," he said. "But I'm fresh for that."

Adams said his prognosis, while painful, gives him clip to get his affairs successful bid and opportunity his goodbyes.

"I've conscionable benignant of processed it, truthful it conscionable benignant of is what it is," he said. "Everybody has to die, arsenic acold arsenic I know."