‘Dilbert’ Creator Scott Adams Shares Heartbreaking Health Update Amid Cancer Battle

Michelle Stein
'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams
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What To Know

  • Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, revealed he is now paralyzed below the waist due to stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer.
  • Adams previously sought help from public figures, including Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to access the cancer drug Pluvicto.
  • The Dilbert comic strip, which began in 1989, ended in March 2023 after Adams made racist comments.

Scott Adams, the cartoonist best known for creating the Dilbert comics, shared a heartbreaking health update amid his cancer battle.

In May 2025, Adams announced his stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer diagnosis on his Real Coffee With Scott Adams podcast.

The latest update from the comic creator came from a YouTube video published on December 13. In it, Adams, 67, revealed he was paralyzed below the waist as his prostate cancer treatment continues.

“I can’t move any muscles,” he explained. “I do have feeling. I just can’t move any muscles. And the solution as of today is we’re gonna ambulance me over to a facility to get radiated and they’re gonna try to radiate that pesky tumor that’s around my spine if all goes well, and it gets more tumor than it gets good stuff, I might get my, at least ability to get to get some strength back in my lower body.”

Additionally, Adams told fans that after a few more days of radiation, he will get to the point “where I can do enough myself that I can go home” from the hospital.

“We’ve MRIed it and looked at it, and I’ve got all the help I need at Kaiser,” he said. “More than enough. They’re bending over backwards.”

In November, Adams issued a public plea via X for President Donald Trump to help him access a drug called Pluvicto. He claimed his insurance provider “dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it and I can’t seem to fix that.”

Donald Trump Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Trump himself all replied on social media, with the POTUS declaring, “On it!” on Truth Social alongside a screenshot of Adams’ original post. By the following day, Adams said he had a treatment scheduled.

In the YouTube video, however, Adams said that his Pluvicto treatment was postponed due to his radiation.

“That was, of course, my great hope, that the Pluvicto would be the cure,” he explained. “It still might be, I don’t know this for sure. But we might be able to radiate me back to some kind of functioning person. And then if I’m functioning, there’s a possibility of that being put back on [the list for Pluvicto]. But it’s possible I’ve lost my spots. So I don’t know if I will ever get the Pluvicto or not. If I don’t, I will be unhappy.”

Dilbert started running as a syndicated cartoon in newspapers in 1989. However, it ended in March 2023, following racist comments from Adams.