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.
No. Cancer is not really hereditary in the true sense of the word. Hereditary means that you definitely get a trait such as eye colour or an illness from the genes you inherit from your parents. The cause of cancer is not as simple as that. Cancers are not caused by just one gene. Cancer is usually an illness of older people and most cancers occur when several genetic changes occur in a cell. This is called sporadic cancer. But some people inherit faulty (mutated) genes which make their chance of developing a particular cancer higher than normal.