Rapidly dividing cells are a feast for a virus. Destroy the core and the whole tumor collapses at once (apoptosis), and the bigger it grew, the bigger the payout.
TUMOR DESTROYED: its dividing cells were a feast. Every cell of the tumor dies with the core and a pile of loot drops.
Nucleotides: 30 in the Nasal Passage, 45 Lungs, 66 Bloodstream, 84 Lymph Node, 102 Gut, 120 Liver, 141 Bone Marrow, 165 Brain (before modifiers)
+25% nucleotides for every growth stage
A chest and a mutation orb
Chaperones: half of 2 in the Nasal Passage, +1 per organ deeper (about 1 in the Nasal Passage, 4–5 in the Brain)
In Pandemic Game Mode about a 2 in 5 chance of an RNA strand (elsewhere a 40% chance of a few nucleotides instead)
4% chance of a Dormant Virion (an extra life)
Its pools, lesions and tendrils vanish
From the Codex
Cancer is the host's own cells dividing out of control after mutations break their brakes. Some viruses (HPV, Epstein-Barr, hepatitis B) can help cause it.
Fun fact: Oncolytic viruses are engineered to infect and burst cancer cells; T-VEC, a modified herpes virus, is approved for melanoma.
Exploration challenges can ask you to discover tumor rooms.
Discover 1 tumor room, or several
From the Codex
Cancer is the host's own cells dividing out of control after mutations break their brakes. Some viruses (HPV, Epstein-Barr, hepatitis B) can help cause it.
Fun fact: Oncolytic viruses are engineered to infect and burst cancer cells; T-VEC, a modified herpes virus, is approved for melanoma.
