Wiki Cancer Metastasis Metastasis
Metastasis It Follows You
Leave an organ with any tumor still alive and the cancer metastasizes into the next one. It arrives at the stage it reached, still able to grow, and sends assassins after you.
On this page 2 Metastasis Radiation Therapy Leaving an organ with a living tumor carries the cancer into the next organ at the stage it reached.
The leave prompt warns you: A tumor is still alive here: it will metastasize to the next organ at its current stageThe next organ is guaranteed a tumor room at that stage It can still grow as many stages as that organ's own tumor could, on top of the ones it brought A METASTASIS banner announces it: stage X of Y, still growingFrom then on, assassin squads hunt you until every tumor in that organ is dead Doesn't happen in Endless Game Mode From the Codex Cancer growing in the host while you're there, and what happens if you leave it.
Fun fact: Kill tumors early: they only get worse, and they follow you if you don't.
Tumors & Metastasis in the Codex Half the time after a metastasis, the host fights back with radiation: the tumor shrinks a stage, but it scorches you too.
Comes a few seconds after the METASTASIS banner The tumor drops one stage (never below stage 1) You lose 20% of your max health (never lethal) Radiation sickness for 30s: you deal 20% less damage and move 10% slowerFrom the Codex High-energy radiation aimed at a tumor damages its DNA so the cancer cells stop dividing and die; healthy tissue nearby gets hit too.
Fun fact: About half of all people with cancer get radiation therapy at some point in their treatment.
Radiation Therapy in the Codex 
