Her anger at cancer personality bs featured prominently in her book Illness as Metaphor.
UD also remembers wondering why such obviously implausible notions continue to be taken seriously. This might even have been the beginning of UD‘s education in the sketchy field of research in psychology (this blog has over the years covered a zillion stories of disgraced high-profile psychologists, like Marc Hauser and Diederik Stapel).
Finally we seem to have the definitive trashing of the cancer personality. About time.