"When fear becomes extreme, it can give rise to strange physical symptoms," says Dr. Lin Geng-li, an attending physician at Taipei's Song De Psychiatry Clinic, commenting on his clinical experience. Lin says that the anxieties of people with cancerophobia often manifest physically as headaches, dizziness, tightness in the chest, shortness of breath, and a weak heartbeat.
台北市松德診所身心科主治醫師林耿立的臨床觀察是，不少癌恐過度的病人或多或少都出現了焦慮的「身體化」症狀，例如經常自覺頭痛、頭暈、胸悶、氣喘、心臟無力等。