© TNSScott Adams tours the Chicago Tribune newsroom and its cubicles in 2002.
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."
© San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesScott Adams, cartoonist and author and creator of “Dilbert”, poses for a portrait with a life-sized Dilbert cutout in his home office on Jan. 6, 2014.
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.
© YouTube/ Real Coffee with Scott AdamsScott Adams opens up about his cancer diagnosis.
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.
Reader Comments
Regardless of the fact that he didn't quite think that through, I think he is heroic and I'm very sorry to hear this.
Only a small minority honestly asks the "doctors" how and why the cancer developed in the first place, and finally grok that they must stop feeding the cancer by their "toxic" behavior.
But, as you said, most do not - and finally die through an authority-induced mind-over-matter indoctrination. By the way, one can also die from voodoo magic. If one honestly believes in it ...
Yes nocebo (believing in something makes you sick and then actually getting sick) can be very powerful. Especially for cancer diagnosis, the first thing doctors tell their patients is they have a deadly disease, or how long they have to live. This is extremely destructive to the mind and not many people who believe this get defiant.
Most probably they spend more time on "medical school" on how to hand out a diagnosis in such a way that the patient submits to the suggested lucrative "treatment", than they spend with nutrition. I heard more than one MD state that their "nutritional education" was less than one day - over the whole allopathic indoctrination period.