Cancer patients, to a statistically significant degree, were more likely to demonstrate the following traits: “the elements of denial and repression of anger and of other negative emotions . . . the external appearance of a ‘nice’ or ‘good’ person, a suppression of reactions which may offend others, and the avoidance of conflict. . . . The risk of colorectal cancer with respect to this model was independent of the previously found risk factors of diet, beer intake, and family history.”5 Self-reported childhood or adult unhappiness was also more common
