Scott Adams Reveals Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
by Joel B. Pollak
Scott Adams, the influential author, cartoonist, and pundit, revealed Monday that he is suffering from metastasized prostate cancer — the same diagnosis President Joe Biden reported the day before.
“I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has,” Adams said. “I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones.”
“My life expectancy is maybe this summer,” he said.
He said that he was considering ending his own life, as California law allows, using self-administered drugs.
“I’m in pain,” he said, “I’m always in pain.” He said he had relied on a walker for several months, owing to both cancer and acute arthritis.
He said he had come to terms with his condition, and accepted that experimental treatments would not work for him.
“It’s kind of civilized, that you know how long you have, so you can put your affairs together, said your goodbyes, do all the things you have to do.”
“This one is really painful, but it’s kind of good that it gives you time, while your brain is still working, to wrap things up,” he said.
Adams rose to fame as the artist and writer who created Dilbert, one of the most popular cartoons in the world. Dilbert mocks office culture and corporate America, as well as large organizations generally.
In 2014, Adams published How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, which remains one of the most widely-read contemporary books of business advice. The following year, he began commenting on politics as he became fascinated by Donald Trump’s journey in the 2016 campaign.