Beloved Conservative Host Shares Incredible News After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis

Scott Adams, the conservative comic strip writer who refashioned himself into an online talk show host, said on Sunday that he had made a final decision about how to handle the late stages of his battle with a terminal form of cancer — right up until he reversed himself.

Adams, who in May revealed he has been battling the same form of aggressive prostate cancer as former President Joe Biden, said his doctors had predicted that he would have died sometime in June. After surpassing their expectations, the “Dilbert” comic creator at first decided that living a few more weeks or months wasn’t worth the sheer amount of pain he found himself in most days.

“I’m officially terminal. I’ve got two doctors to certify it,” he told Rumble viewers during a recent episode of his show.

A California resident, Adams, 68, said he was informed about the state’s End of Life Option Act, the 2016 law which allows terminal patients to be prescribed a set of drugs to painlessly end their lives.

“I’ve done the paperwork, I’ve even ordered… the medicine that you eventually drink to end your life,” he explained.

“I was absolutely whacked with pain. I mean, I had pain like I’ve never felt before all over my body, and so I sort of internally planned – you know, but I wasn’t telling the world – that I needed to get past my stepbrother’s wedding and reception, and then to end my life… guess when? Basically today. Today was the day,” he laughed.

“I was planning to take my own life today, maybe tomorrow, but at the end of June.”

But by a miraculous turn of events, Adams said a new medication relieving his pain has given him second thoughts.

“I’m taking a new medication. They block your testosterone, and the cancer needs the testosterone to eat. So, completely surprising me, I didn’t realize that that would also remove all of my pain. So, you know, last night I’m swimming in my pool, playing pingpong, walking around. I have no pain. No pain anywhere. In fact I don’t have any real symptoms,” he said. “My legs are a little bit wobbly because I couldn’t walk for about five months… but at the moment, my PSA levels have dropped ninety percent in just a few weeks.”

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PSA, or the prostate-specific antigen, is a blood marker that physicians often employ to determine the presence of prostate cancer, especially in older men. Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the personal physician to President Biden, has been blamed for not giving a PSA test to the president during his final checkup in office when he was declared “fit” to serve.

Both Adams’s and Biden’s cancers are within Grade Group 5, the highest risk category, and are associated with greater likelihood of metastasis and more dire prognoses, according to ABC News.

It’s possible that Adams has been prescribed anandrogen deprivation therapy, or ADT, which blocks the body’s ability to produce testosterone that fuels the prostate cancer. Various ADTs are not a cure-all for late-stage prostate cancer, though one study found that the five-year survival rate of late-stage cancer patients taking ADT was increased by 10%, according to the National Cancer Institute.