US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would help the creator of the Dilbert comic strip receive treatment for his metastatic prostate cancer after the cartoonist directly appealed on social media.
Trump replied, “On it,” in a brief post on X after cartoonist Scott Adams asked him to intervene with his healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, to schedule treatment with the targeted radiotherapy drug Pluvicto .
“I am declining fast,” Adams wrote on X. He added that the treatment “will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer.”
Adams said Kaiser Permanente had approved his application to receive Pluvicto but had “dropped the ball” in scheduling his intravenous infusion.
Kaiser Permanente said in a statement that Adams’ oncology team “is working closely with him on the next steps in his cancer care, which are already underway.” It added that, since the drug’s approval, it had treated more than 150 patients with the drug in Northern California, Reuters reported.
“We know this drug and this disease,” it said. The White House did not respond to queries about help for Adams, who has been a vocal Trump supporter over the past several years.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy also responded on social media: “The President wants to help.”
Who is Adam Scott?
Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, first gained prominence in the mid 1990s and also authored books such as Loserthink and God’s Debris. He endorsed Mitt Romney in the past and supported Donald Trump during the 2016 elections.
Early in 2016 he predicted that Trump would win, and his forecasts gained wider attention as the campaign progressed. Some of his projections were later featured in Politico’s annual list of ‘worst predictions’.
These included one in which he claimed Republicans ‘would be hunted’ if Joe Biden won the 2020 election and another in which he said the 2024 presidential election would result in a ‘landslide’ of claims that the election was rigged. Adams had also predicted that the results would ultimately be overturned in Trump’s favour by the Supreme Court.
Why his cartoon stopped coming in newspapers?
The Dilbert comic strip was first published in 1989 and ran for decades. At its peak, it was one of the most widely circulated comic strips in the United States, but many newspapers dropped it in 2023 after a racist rant by Adams appeared on YouTube. Adams called Black Americans a “hate group” and suggested white Americans “get the hell away from Black people” in response to a conservative organisation’s poll suggesting many African Americans do not think it is OK to be white. He later said that his comments were intended as hyperbole and that he disavowed racists, while media reports had ignored the context of his remarks.
What is Pluvicto?
A radioactive drug used to treat adults with PSMA-positive prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body and has not responded to treatments that lower testosterone levels, national cancer institution reported. It is used in patients whose cancer has been treated with an androgen receptor inhibitor and who can either delay or have received treatment with a type of anticancer drug called a taxane. Pluvicto binds to a protein called PSMA, which is found on some prostate cancer cells. It gives off radiation that may kill the cancer cells. Pluvicto is a type of radio conjugate. Also called lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan.
Swiss drugmaker Novartis, which makes Pluvicto, said last month that the drug reduced the risk of progression or death in patients with prostate cancer by 28 per cent. Pluvicto is part of a class of drugs that combines cell-killing radioactive particles with molecules that attach themselves to tumours.
Trump replied, “On it,” in a brief post on X after cartoonist Scott Adams asked him to intervene with his healthcare provider, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, to schedule treatment with the targeted radiotherapy drug Pluvicto .
“I am declining fast,” Adams wrote on X. He added that the treatment “will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer.”
Adams said Kaiser Permanente had approved his application to receive Pluvicto but had “dropped the ball” in scheduling his intravenous infusion.
Kaiser Permanente said in a statement that Adams’ oncology team “is working closely with him on the next steps in his cancer care, which are already underway.” It added that, since the drug’s approval, it had treated more than 150 patients with the drug in Northern California, Reuters reported.
“We know this drug and this disease,” it said. The White House did not respond to queries about help for Adams, who has been a vocal Trump supporter over the past several years.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy also responded on social media: “The President wants to help.”
Who is Adam Scott?
Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, first gained prominence in the mid 1990s and also authored books such as Loserthink and God’s Debris. He endorsed Mitt Romney in the past and supported Donald Trump during the 2016 elections.
Early in 2016 he predicted that Trump would win, and his forecasts gained wider attention as the campaign progressed. Some of his projections were later featured in Politico’s annual list of ‘worst predictions’.
These included one in which he claimed Republicans ‘would be hunted’ if Joe Biden won the 2020 election and another in which he said the 2024 presidential election would result in a ‘landslide’ of claims that the election was rigged. Adams had also predicted that the results would ultimately be overturned in Trump’s favour by the Supreme Court.
Why his cartoon stopped coming in newspapers?
The Dilbert comic strip was first published in 1989 and ran for decades. At its peak, it was one of the most widely circulated comic strips in the United States, but many newspapers dropped it in 2023 after a racist rant by Adams appeared on YouTube. Adams called Black Americans a “hate group” and suggested white Americans “get the hell away from Black people” in response to a conservative organisation’s poll suggesting many African Americans do not think it is OK to be white. He later said that his comments were intended as hyperbole and that he disavowed racists, while media reports had ignored the context of his remarks.
What is Pluvicto?
A radioactive drug used to treat adults with PSMA-positive prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body and has not responded to treatments that lower testosterone levels, national cancer institution reported. It is used in patients whose cancer has been treated with an androgen receptor inhibitor and who can either delay or have received treatment with a type of anticancer drug called a taxane. Pluvicto binds to a protein called PSMA, which is found on some prostate cancer cells. It gives off radiation that may kill the cancer cells. Pluvicto is a type of radio conjugate. Also called lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan.
Swiss drugmaker Novartis, which makes Pluvicto, said last month that the drug reduced the risk of progression or death in patients with prostate cancer by 28 per cent. Pluvicto is part of a class of drugs that combines cell-killing radioactive particles with molecules that attach themselves to tumours.
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