Scott Adams reveals he expects to be 'checking out from this domain sometime this summer' after prostate cancer diagnosis

Scott Adams, the cartoonist famed for the Dilbert comic strip, revealed his prostate cancer diagnosis on Monday, coming as former President Joe Biden was also diagnosed with the cancer.

On his show Real Coffee With Scott Adams on Monday, Adams told viewers, "Some of you have already guessed, so this won’t surprise you at all, but I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has."

"I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones," Adams said. "But I’ve had it longer than he’s had it, well, longer than he’s admitted having it. So my life expectancy is maybe the summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer."

Adams said the cancer has already reached "intolerable" levels and that he does not have "good days," and that "every day is a nightmare, the evening is even worse."

"I’m in pain, and I’m always in pain. The pain moves around to different parts of my body. I’ve been using a walker to walk for months now. So, it’s basically intolerable.

"You might wonder why it took so long for me to tell you," Adams said, "and I think I owe you an answer to that. Number one, it would change my life because everybody would start treating me like the cancer guy. There’s no second way that goes, once you go public, you’re just the dying cancer guy. And I didn’t want you to have to think about it. And I didn’t want to have to think about it."

He said he wasn’t lying when he said his mobility issues were arthritis and back-related, "but it turns out that, as bad luck would have it, I have arthritis in the same place, you know, my disks are bad in my back, but also a tumor. So one of my tumors is in the same place. So I’ve got the sort of triple whammy."

He said he would continue his morning show "as long as I can, as long as I can tolerate it." 
 

He said he had been planning to tell his audience the news, but wanted to get past his stepdaughter’s wedding. Adams said he thought announcing it as eyes were on Biden in the wake of his diagnosis would be "easier." He said it "takes a little of the energy away."

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