Scott Adams: Cancer Recovery Odds Are Zero

Scott Adams, the cartoonist who created the comic strip Dilbert, shared a grim update on his prostate cancer diagnosis, saying "it's all bad news" and the chances of him recovering are "essentially zero."

During a livestream of his podcast Real Coffee with Scott Adams on Thursday, Jan. 1, Adams said he had spoken to his radiologist a day earlier "and it's all bad news."

"The odds of me recovering are essentially zero," said Adams, 68. "I'll give you any updates if that changes, but it won't."

Adams said there was no chance he would get feeling back in his legs and that he was experiencing ongoing heart failure. But he also said he was not in any pain The cartoonist relayed that January will likely "be a month of transition one way or the other" and that he will continue his podcast for "as long as it makes sense" because he likes doing it and it keeps him busy.

"I have much bigger problems than the stuff I'm talking about in the news," he said on his podcast. "But I'm so interested in like what's happening in the world."

He said he'd also try to make new comics.

Adams announced he had the same kind of aggressive prostate cancer as former President Joe Biden in May, a day after Biden shared his diagnosis publicly, and that it had spread to his bones. Adams said at the time that he had only months to live.

The Dilbert creator is a supporter of President Donald Trump and has been critical of Biden, but expressed sympathy for the former president in his May disclosure. Adams said in May that he decided to share his diagnosis after learning that Biden had the same disease, in part because he hoped it would "take away a lot of the attention" from his own announcement.

Adams created Dilbert, a popular comic strip which sends up office culture, in 1989. In 2023, hundreds of newspapers dropped the cartoon after he said on his podcast that Black people were "a hate group" and that white people should "just get the hell away" from them. He later defended the racist remarks.