“…Aggressive hostility was related significantly (P Յ 0.018) to the risk for colon cancer. 37 Although that and other studies 2,3,33,35,36,38,40,[42][43][44] found significant associations between personality traits and the risk for cancer, many of those studies suffered from methodological problems, such as observation bias, 3,33,38 interviewer bias, 2,33,35,36,40 small populations, 2,33,35,37,40 and insufficient adjustment for confounders or intermediate factors. 37 .…”