Does personality determine life expectancy? Cancer prefers type C personality? The sooner you know this, the better.

Expert of this article: Wang Xiaohuan, Doctor of Medicine, Fudan University

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What kind of people have Type C personality?

Do Cancers really prefer Type C personalities?

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“Cancer and blood type are also related”

Is this statement correct?

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What is Type C Personality?

Is this the personality type that Cancer likes best?

Type C Personality

“C” is taken from the first letter of “Cancer”, and is also known as “Cancer personality”. This type of personality is characterized by being hesitant, not good at expressing emotions, avoiding conflicts, and being overly self-restrained.

We often hear the saying "accumulated worry leads to illness", so many people closely associate this type C personality with cancer.

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But in fact, this is a confusion of concepts, and the term "cancer personality" is not scientific.

Negative emotions that cannot be relieved for a long time may have an impact on health, but at present there are no clear experimental results or data to fully prove which personality type is related to a high incidence of cancer.

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So is there a relationship between cancer and blood type?

In addition to "cancer personality", there was also the term "cancer blood type".

Likewise, there is no necessary connection between cancer and blood type. Currently, there is no research that can fully prove which blood type cancer prefers, and the saying of "cancer blood type" has no scientific basis.

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There are many factors that cause cancer, and most studies cannot fully consider all influencing factors. Therefore, terms such as "cancer personality", "cancer blood type", etc. have limitations.

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What factors are related to cancer?

Then someone will ask, since cancer has no necessary connection with personality and blood type, what factors are related to cancer?

In fact, the pathogenesis of cancer is complex and there are many causative factors. So far, cancer is still a difficult problem that the medical community is working hard to overcome.

If we summarize the causative factors of cancer, they can be divided into the following categories:

(1) Genetic factors

Studies have confirmed that there are certain genetic factors in the incidence of common malignant tumors such as breast cancer, kidney cancer, liver cancer, and gastric cancer.

However, carrying a certain oncogene does not mean that you will definitely develop cancer. It just means that under the same other conditions, the carrier is more susceptible to cancer.

(2) Age factor

Aging is an important factor in the development of cancer.

As we all know, the cells in our body are constantly dividing, replicating, producing new cells, and eliminating old cells every day. However, as we age, the body's ability to produce new cells will gradually weaken, and the probability of "errors" occurring during division and replication will increase. If these "errors" are not corrected or eliminated in time, they will inevitably "accumulate" and become "out of control", leading to the occurrence of cancer.

However, with the development of society, more and more studies have confirmed that cancer is no longer a "patent" of the elderly, but has gradually become younger.

(3) Lifestyle factors

If the causes of cancer are divided into congenital factors and acquired factors, then cancers caused by acquired factors account for more than half, and among acquired factors, cancers caused by bad eating habits and lifestyle habits account for more than half.

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As we all know, alcoholism, smoking, staying up late, and high-sugar and high-fat diets are all bad habits for health. So far, quite a number of studies have fully confirmed that these bad habits will increase the risk of cancer.

In addition to the above factors, there are many factors related to the occurrence of cancer, such as the external environment (such as working in a place with long-term ionizing radiation, the presence of carcinogens in the living environment, etc.), infectious factors (such as Helicobacter pylori, hepatitis B virus, human herpes virus, etc.).

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Cancer is not contagious

But are pathogenic factors contagious?

Cancer has genetic factors, so many cancers with genetic tendencies are called "familial cancers", but in fact "familial cancers" not only include these cancers with genetic tendencies, but also some cancers caused by "infection of pathogenic factors".

The "infection" here does not refer to cancer. Cancer itself is not contagious, but the pathogenic factors are contagious. This is because the occurrence of some cancers is related to viruses.

What pathogenic factors can cause cancer?

Helicobacter pylori is a high-risk factor for gastric cancer;

Liver cancer is related to the hepatitis B virus. Studies have shown that people infected with the hepatitis B virus are 11.3 times more likely to develop liver cancer than healthy people.

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Cervical cancer is related to human papillomavirus. According to studies, 99.7% of cervical cancer patients can detect high-risk human papillomavirus DNA in their bodies.

In addition, hepatitis C virus, Epstein-Barr virus, etc. are also closely related to the occurrence of liver cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer, respectively.

It is worth noting that infection with these viruses does not necessarily cause cancer, but the risk of cancer is indeed greatly increased.

In summary

Stay away from cancer

Develop good living habits

Pay attention to hygiene and have regular physical examinations

Exercise to improve your immunity

Is the right way

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