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Scott Adams Reveals He Has ‘Same Cancer’ As Biden In Heartbreaking Announcement
Scott Adams, the groundbreaking cartoonist behind “Dilbert” and other iconic comic strips that have graced America’s newspapers for decades, revealed on Monday that he is battling the same aggressive form of prostate cancer as President Joe Biden.
Biden’s announcement earlier in the day shook the foundations of Washington, D.C., with many racing to ask how long the 82-year-old doctor’s knew about his condition. In a statement, Biden’s physicians gave his cancer a Gleason score of 9, which covers metastasis to the bone.
Although far younger, Adams, 67, said he is fighting the same battle as the former president — one he expects to soon lose.
“Some of you may have already guessed, and this won’t surprise you at all, but I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has,” Adams said on his Rumble channel. “I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones.”
“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 this summer. I expect to be checking out from this domain sometime this summer.”
Adams’s heartbreaking update was the first time he has publicly admitted how soon he expects to lose his fight against cancer, portending the same vicissitude facing President Biden. Although the five-year survival rate for prostate cancer is 98%, the Gleason score tops out at 10, meaning Biden is suffering from one of the most aggressive malignancies possible.
Both mens’ 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.
Shortly after Biden’s announcement, the American Cancer Society stated that the news is “a reminder about the tragic impact of prostate cancer in the U.S.”
“Early detection is key, and we are concerned given the 5% year-over-year increase in diagnosis of men with more advanced disease. We can and must do more to prevent late-stage diagnosis and death from prostate cancer,” the ACS said.
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Media outlets in the following 24 hours have rushed to host medical experts who have almost universally concluded that it is inconceivable that President Biden did not carry prostate cancer while in office. The Democrat was forced to drop out of his reelection bid after concerns about his diminishing health became too great for his team to handle, even though they at one point discussed the possibility of Biden using a wheelchair if he was elected to a second term.
Dr. Zeke Emanuel, an oncologist with the University of Pennsylvania medical system, told MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Monday that it’s undoubtable Biden was afflicted while in office.
“He did not develop it in the last hundred, two hundred days,” Emanuel said. “He had it while he was president. He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021. Yes, I don’t think there’s any disagreement about that.”
Dr. David Shusterman, a board-certified urological surgeon who teaches urology to up-and-coming physicians, similarly stated on NewsNation Sunday that President Biden could have carried malignant cancer for “five to ten years” before last week’s announcement.
“I have to say that in my expertise as a urologist, prostate cancer like this doesn’t come on just overnight. This happens over a long period of time. And typically you would see a PSA elevation, you would do a biopsy, and then you would do a treatment for the prostate cancer,” Dr. Shusterman said.
The urology expert continued, “But in the modern age of medicine, especially the fact that he was a former president, he had intensive state-of-the-art care where we can see prostate cancer 10 years in the past. So this is, I mean, it’s very unusual to hear that someone has prostate cancer where they’re annually being followed up.”
