One of the most popular DIY cures involves rubbing Vicks VapoRub on the bottom of your child's feet and chest at night, covering with a warm towel for 30 seconds, and repeating a few times. Though it sounds odd, some parents swear that come morning, the nagging cough is a distant memory.
Yet, there is also one type of skin cancer which is a cancer of blood that really causes itchiness. It is the cutaneous T-cell lymphoma which is a growth of white blood cell in the skin. That explains why does skin cancer itch.
There are lots of ways for a cancer to cause death. Cancer in your digestive system can result in death by malnutrition. But chemotherapy can also cause death by malnutrition. Cancer in your lungs can cause death by asphyxiation, or by infection, like pneumonia that might not have killed you without the cancer.