Scott Adams reveals he has metastatic prostate cancer, the same as Biden: '100% not curable'

Scott Adams, the “Dilbert” cartoonist turned right-wing societal media commentator, has Stage 4 prostate crab — the aforesaid assertive assortment that President Biden’s bureau conscionable announced helium has.

Adams revealed his diagnosis Monday greeting portion discussing Sunday’s Biden quality connected “Real Coffee With Scott Adams,” his regular podcast.

“Big communicative of the day. You whitethorn person heard that Joe Biden has prostate cancer, but it’s not the bully kind. It’s the atrocious kind,” Adams said. “There’s thing you request to cognize astir prostate cancer. If it’s localized and it hasn’t near your prostate, it’s 100% curable. But if it leaves your prostate and spreads to different parts of your body, successful this case, Joe Biden has it successful his bones, it is 100% not curable.”

Turns retired Adams has firsthand cognition of what Biden tin expect arsenic his illness progresses.

“Today is the time I’ve decided that I’m going to instrumentality the accidental ... to marque an announcement of my own,” helium said astir 7 minutes into Monday’s show. “Some of you person already guessed, truthful this won’t astonishment you astatine all, but I person the aforesaid crab Joe Biden has. I besides person prostate crab that has besides dispersed to my bones, but I’ve had it longer than he’s had it. Well, longer than he’s admitted having it.

“So my beingness expectancy is possibly this summer. I expect to beryllium checking retired from this domain sometime this summer.”

Adams had already offered his “respect and compassion and sympathy” to Biden and his household because, helium said, “They’re going to beryllium going done an particularly pugnacious time. It’s a unspeakable disease. It’s going to get precise painful.” He said helium chose Monday to uncover his ain diagnosis due to the fact that helium was hoping the attraction connected Biden having the aforesaid crab would lure distant immoderate of the online attention.

He kept his diagnosis a concealed astatine first, helium said, due to the fact that helium wanted to support beingness arsenic mean arsenic helium could for arsenic agelong arsenic helium could, earlier helium turned into “just the dying crab guy.”

No alien to online controversy, Adams said helium expected to person maltreatment successful the integer arena because, arsenic helium saw with Biden’s announcement, “People are truly cruel. They’re truly bad.”

“People are going to accidental it’s due to the fact that I got the COVID shot. There’s nary denotation that that makes a difference. People are going to accidental it’s thing I brought connected myself. They’re going to accidental it’s due to the fact that I lived a atrocious life. Pfft. I don’t know,” Adams explained. “But radical are going to beryllium really, truly terrible.”

He expected his “enemies, successful different words, radical who are Democrats, mostly” would travel aft him “pretty hard,” but said helium was acceptable to woody with that.

But Adams said helium is dealing with unspeakable pain. He’s been utilizing a walker for months present and appears to beryllium readying to instrumentality vantage of a California instrumentality that allows physician-assisted termination for terminal patients.

“I was really an activistic erstwhile California was considering this,” helium explained. “In California, erstwhile you get to the constituent wherever you’re decidedly going to die, you’re terminal, determination is simply a precise civilized process wherever you tin get immoderate foodstuff that you portion that makes you autumn dormant and past you walk away. ... So you bash that erstwhile the illness becomes intolerable. Now, the illness is already intolerable. I tin archer you that I don’t person bully days.”

After getting done his mentation and detailing the reasons helium kept his diagnosis from his listeners, Adams launched into the quality of the day, talking astir topics including hiring practices astatine Harvard and successful Chicago and the flaws successful the “big, beautiful” fund measure Republicans are pushing done Congress.

He wasn’t chill with immoderate of it — which sounded reasonably adjacent to mean Scott Adams.

On Sunday, the bureau of erstwhile President Biden issued a connection saying, “Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a caller uncovering of a prostate nodule aft experiencing expanding urinary symptoms. On Friday, helium was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason people of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone.”

It added, “While this represents a much assertive signifier of the disease, the crab appears to beryllium hormone-sensitive, which allows for effectual management. The President and his household are reviewing attraction options with his physicians.”

Outcomes person improved successful caller decades and patients tin expect to unrecorded with metastatic prostate crab for 4 oregon 5 years, Dr. Matthew Smith of Massachusetts General Brigham Cancer Center told the Associated Press connected Sunday. “It’s precise treatable, but not curable,” helium said.