The notion that you can develop cancer on the basis of your personality traits, stress at the workplace or because you’ve lost a loved one is scientifically untenable. — dpa
When Sabine Dinkel was diagnosed two years ago with advanced ovarian cancer, she pictured herself in a cemetery. After getting over the initial shock, Dinkel, who was born in 1967 and works as a personnel and business start-up consultant in Germany, began looking for advice literature.
What she found depressed her even more. Many books implied that she was to blame for her disease – because she led an unhealthy lifestyle and hadn’t taken proper care of herself.
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