Cancer personality as a cancer culprit? Is it true that personality affects the chances of getting cancer? Bad personality and psychological trauma have been ranked among the risk factors for cancer. However, it is not difficult to find cases of research with the opposite view. Not long ago, Tohoku University in Japan conducted a seven-year follow-up survey of 30,277 volunteers with four types of personalities: extroversion, neuroticism, psychotic tendencies, and lying, and the results showed that there was no significant relationship between personality and the incidence of cancer. So which of the two claims is accurate? The survey found that Chinese medicine experts are inclined to support the “cancer personality”. Clinically, they usually ask whether the patient is angry, likes to take the bull by the horns, is short-tempered or depressed, etc. Clinical experience has found that 60% to 80% of the patients have cancer. Clinical experience has found that 60% to 80% of cancer patients are introverted, have little communication with their families and love to sulk. According to Chinese medicine, cancer is mainly caused by liver qi discomfort, stagnation of qi and blood stasis, and poisonous evils, which become lumps over time. Therefore, this kind of easily repressed character has a greater impact on liver cancer, gallbladder cancer and breast cancer, because these organs are partly belong to the “liver meridian”. Western medical experts are mostly skeptical of the theory of “personality causing cancer”, thinking that it lacks theoretical basis. Regarding liver cancer, which is most affected by personality as mentioned by Chinese medicine practitioners, Western medical experts believe that from clinical experience, there is no obvious connection between the type of personality of a person and whether or not he/she gets cancer. Cancer patients also have no commonality in personality. In Henan Province, more than 95% of liver cancer patients are transformed by hepatitis, which is mainly hepatitis A and B. The number of patients with hepatitis A and B is 2 per thousand. Among the hepatitis patients, 2‰ to 3‰ of them will be transformed into liver cancer. So, who among hepatitis patients will be transformed into liver cancer? The reason is not clear, according to medical research is presumed to be related to genes, but not directly related to personality. Western medicine does not exclude the views of Chinese medicine, and now the Western psychosocial medicine model also believes that mental factors and physical and mental health are greatly related, if a person is often irritable, impulsive, then his health is certainly not good. However, I think it is unscientific to simply say that people with different personalities are more likely to suffer from cancer. Although there have been cases of people who were fine but suddenly developed cancer after the death of their mothers, some Western medical experts still believe that there is no evidence to prove that there is a direct link between the two. Of course, there are also Western medical experts believe that there is a link between the two, cancer patients do have a certain commonality of personality, generally more introverted and depressed patients, while the proportion of people with a cheerful personality is relatively small. “It should be said that there is a relationship between personality and cancer.” The differences between the theoretical systems of Chinese and Western medicine have caused disagreements among experts, but none of them denies that it is not uncommon to see clinical cases like this one in which cancer develops after a depressed personality or emotional trauma. The experts who hold a dissenting attitude are quite cognizant of the effects of bad moods and poor mental states on health. Data from various control group studies show that the chances of developing cancer are two to four times higher in bad moods than in ordinary situations. A depressed personality can easily lead to depression, which is what psychologists refer to as poor stress tolerance, leading to long-term emotional depression and thus cancer. Two cases provided by clinicians are impressive: a rural woman in her 50s lived a peaceful life, but her only son died in a traffic accident, and she was plunged into grief, and has been depressed, and six months later, she was found to have breast cancer. A company’s finance section chief, career success, family harmony, and then his son died in a car accident, he has been devastated, always clogged up in his heart, thinking of his son, sadness and tears, and soon was found to be suffering from lung cancer. Psychological data show that 70% of tumor patients have depression for a long time before the onset of the disease. The psychiatrist pointed out that “cancer personality” refers more to the emotional stagnation, not an extroverted or introverted personality. Her point of view is that “emotions cause disease”, some people seem to be very cheerful on the outside, but inwardly too much emphasis on other people’s views of the self-requirement is too high, self-evaluation is too low; some people, although introverted, but can be “self-indulgent”, no bad emotions stagnant, such an introverted personality is not detrimental to health. This kind of introverted personality has no adverse effect on health. Cancer incidence factors are multi-faceted, in addition to genetics, environment, lifestyle and dietary structure, etc. have a relatively direct link, personality is not an important factor, not to mention the dominant factor, but the “emotional garbage” will have a certain role in contributing to the development of cancer. Emotions can cure cancer In addition to the view that “emotional garbage” needs to be cleaned up in time, clinical oncologists recognize and emphasize another point of view is that bad character and emotions may not directly cause cancer, but maintaining a good state of mind can cure cancer for cancer patients. In other words, the significance of character for cancer treatment is greater than the significance of prevention. Yu Junli said: “Why is there ‘a lot of cancer is scared to death’? It is that, in a way, the psychological effect is even decisive for treatment.” There is such a case. A forty-year-old female worker, 10 years ago, physical examination found cancer, and has been in the middle stage, but she belongs to a big personality, active treatment, life almost no change, still as happy as before. More than ten years have passed, and now her annual physical examination is normal, and the cancer cells have not been found again. There are many cases like this in the “Anti-Cancer Club”. Some people can still walk when they enter the hospital, but when they hear that they have cancer, they are assisted by their family members to get out of the hospital. That’s why we do a lot of publicity in this area, publishing stories of stars who have fought cancer, organizing anti-cancer clubs, and so on, so that patients can encourage each other and get rid of negative emotions. It is because, in treatment, psychology and emotions directly affect the body’s immunity, thus affecting the effectiveness of treatment.