{"id":1147,"date":"2023-02-17T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T13:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2023-02-17T13:37:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T13:37:59","slug":"when-is-itchy-skin-a-cancer-symptom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"When Is Itchy Skin a Cancer Symptom?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Both cancer itself and cancer treatments may cause itching (pruritus)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\">Itchy skin, or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/itching-causes-relief-83208\">pruritus<\/a>, can be a symptom or even the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/cancer-prevention-and-early-warning-signs-3520558\">first sign of some cancers<\/a>, including blood-related, skin, liver, gallbladder, and bile-duct cancer cancers. However, other causes of itching are certainly much more common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-2\">Itching may occur due to direct irritation of the skin, such as with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/skin-cancer-4014650\">skin cancer<\/a>&nbsp;or a separate cancer that has spread, or metastasized, to the skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/thmb\/s6uf0loZGfXUB9-T9MJxYXTBSSk=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/is-itchy-skin-a-cancer-symptom-4582580-5c86967746e0fb0001a0beb4.png\" alt=\"An illustration about managing itchy skin due to cancer treatment\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/thmb\/s6uf0loZGfXUB9-T9MJxYXTBSSk=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/is-itchy-skin-a-cancer-symptom-4582580-5c86967746e0fb0001a0beb4.png\" alt=\"An illustration about managing itchy skin due to cancer treatment\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br>Verywell \/ Brianna Gilmartin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/is-itchy-skin-a-cancer-symptom-4582580\">https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/is-itchy-skin-a-cancer-symptom-4582580<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both cancer itself and cancer treatments may cause itching (pruritus) Itchy skin, or&nbsp;pruritus, can be a symptom or even the&nbsp;first sign of some cancers, including blood-related, skin, liver, gallbladder, and bile-duct cancer cancers. However, other causes of itching are certainly much more common. Itching may occur due to direct irritation of the skin, such as with&nbsp;skin cancer&nbsp;or a separate cancer that has spread, or metastasized, to the skin. Read more here: https:\/\/www.verywellhealth.com\/is-itchy-skin-a-cancer-symptom-4582580<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}