The following are typical personality traits found in those with cancer:

1. Being highly conscientious, caring, dutiful, responsible, hard-working, and usually of above average intelligence.

2. Exhibits a strong tendency toward carrying other people\'s burdens and toward taking on extra obligations, and often 'worrying for others.'

3. Having a deep-seated need to make others happy. Being a 'people pleaser' with a great need for approval.

4. Often lacking closeness with one or both parents, which sometimes, later in life, results in lack of closeness with spouse or others who would normally be close.