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Cartoonist Scott Adams is sharing a harrowing health update.
The 68-year-old, who created the comic strip “Dilbert,” revealed that his prostate cancer prognosis is not a positive one.
“I talked to my radiologist yesterday and it’s all bad news — the odds of me recovering are essentially zero,” he said during his podcast “Real Coffee with Scott Adams” on Thursday. “I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t.”
“So there’s no chance that I’ll get my feeling back in my legs and I’ve got some ongoing heart failure, which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day,” the artist continued. “However, you should prepare yourself that January will probably be a month of transition, one way or another.”
Adams explained to listeners that he hasn’t “made any decisions” yet.
“But it was all bad news, no good news at all,” he reiterated. “So I will keep doing this as long as it makes sense — because I like doing it, it keeps me busy.”
“I have much bigger problems than the stuff I’m talking about in the news,” reflected Adams. “But I’m so interested in like what’s happening in the world.”
Adams revealed he is also working on new comics.
The author first shared that he had an aggressive form of prostate cancer in May, a day after former President Joe Biden declared his diagnosis.
“I also have prostate cancer that has spread to my bones,” Adams said on his podcast, noting at the time that his life expectancy is “maybe the summer.”
He said the pain was “intolerable” and that he does not have any “good days.”
“Every day is a nightmare, and evening is even worse,” Adams described.
“I’m in pain and I’m always in pain, and the pain moves around to different parts of my body,” he added. “I’ve been using a walker to walk for months now.”
Adams went on to extend his “respect and compassion and sympathy to the ex-President and his family.”
“They’re going to be going through an especially tough time. It’s going to get very painful for the president.”
Adams created “Dilbert,” the cartoon that follows humor in the office, in 1989. However, in 2023, more than 80 newspapers stopped printing the cartoon after the creative’s racist remarks. He had said on his podcast that Black people were “a hate group” and urged white people to “just get the hell away” from them.
Adams claimed, however, that “Dilbert” was removed because he introduced “wokeness” into his office-centric cartoons. “It was part of a larger overhaul, I believe, of comics, but why they decided what was in and what was out, that’s not known to anybody except them, I guess,” Adams told Fox News at the time.
Despite the controversy, Adams has continued to host his podcast and promote his cartoon, even sharing a 2026 calendar for “Dilbert” on Instagram.
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