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President Donald Trump said Sunday he would assist “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams in securing cancer treatment after the cartoonist publicly appealed for help while battling metastatic prostate cancer.
“On it,” Trump wrote in a brief post on his Truth Social, responding to Adams, who said he planned to ask the president to intervene so his health care provider, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, would schedule his infusion of the targeted radiotherapy drug Pluvicto.
“I am declining fast,” Adams wrote on X. The treatment “will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer.”
Adams said Kaiser Permanente had approved Pluvicto but “dropped the ball” on scheduling the procedure. In a statement, Kaiser Permanente said Adams’ oncology team “is working closely with him on the next steps in his cancer care, which are already underway.” The provider said it has treated more than 150 patients in Northern California with Pluvicto since the drug’s approval, adding, “We know this drug and this disease.”
Adams concluded his post by noting, “It is not a cure, but it does give good results to many people.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy also responded on social media, writing, “The President wants to help.”
Pluvicto, made by Swiss drugmaker Novartis, has been shown to reduce the risk of disease progression or death in prostate cancer patients by 28 percent, according to trial data released last month. The treatment delivers cancer cell-targeting radioactive particles directly to tumors.
Adams launched “Dilbert” in 1989, and the comic strip became one of the most widely syndicated in the United States. Many newspapers dropped the strip in 2023 after Adams made remarks on YouTube that were widely condemned as racist. Adams later said he intended hyperbole, disavowed racism and argued his comments were taken out of context.
The White House did not comment on President Trump’s statement to intervene on Adams’ behalf.
