Scott Adams, the 68-year-old creator of the long-running comic strip “Dilbert,” shared a grim health update about his prostate cancer diagnosis.
During a livestream of his show “Real Coffee with Scott Adams” on Thursday, Adams shared details from a conversation he had with his radiologist the day before.
“It’s all bad news,” Adams said. “The odds of me recovering are essentially zero.”
“I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t,” he added.
Adams told fans that January will likely be a “month of transition,” adding that he will continue livestreaming for “as long as it makes sense.”
“I like doing it,” Adams said. “Keeps me busy.”
“I will probably write down some closing thoughts today just so I have them,” he went on to say.
Adams announced his prostate cancer diagnosis during a livestream in May 2025.
“It’s metastasized to my bones. It’s fatal, and, uh, I don’t have too much longer,” Adams said. “Maybe a few months, probably this summer I’ll be checking out.”
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But Adams used testosterone blockers throughout the summer, which served as a temporary solution to remove pain and keep him alive.
On Nov. 2, 2025, Adams publicly called on President Donald Trump on X to help him get Pluvicto, a drug that he said his insurance provider “dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it.”
Later that day, Trump replied, “On it!” in a repost of Adams’ request on social media.
On Nov. 3, 2025, Adams provided an update on X, writing, “Getting Pluvicto (the cancer drug) tomorrow, via Kaiser Northern California. The Trump administration works fast. Amazing.”
On Dec. 13, 2025, Adams gave fans an update while livestreaming from his hospital bed, sharing that his Pluvicto treatment had to be postponed due to his radiation treatment.
“I am paralyzed below the waist,” he said. “I do have feeling, I just can’t move any muscles.”
Adams said that the solution at the time was to irradiate the tumor around his spine to give him some strength back in his lower body.
But in his most recent update on Thursday, Adams said there is “no chance” that he will regain feeling in his legs.
Adams is best known for creating “Dilbert,” a comic strip satirizing workplace culture which was first published in 1989 and became a cultural phenomenon.
In February 2023, Adams faced backlash for making remarks that likened Black Americans to a “hate group.”
“Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people,” Adams said during an episode of his show.
Following those comments, Portfolio, a Penguin Random House imprint, withdrew from its plans to publish Adams’ self-help book “Reframe Your Brain.”
Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU), the former distributor of “Dilbert,” also cut ties with Adams at the time.
“As a media and communications company, AMU values free speech,” the top leaders of AMU wrote in a statement. “But we will never support any commentary rooted in discrimination or hate.”
Although the “Dilbert” comic strip is no longer syndicated in newspapers, Adams continues to produce the strip as a webcomic called “Dilbert Reborn.”
