In-game pickup line
“HP up + you feel protected”
Mechanics
What Cancer does
- Taking the item grants three Soul Hearts.
- Once Isaac is hit in a room, later hits there are reduced to half-heart damage through a Wafer-like effect.
From the game files
What you receive on pickup
Pickup grants
- Soul hearts
- +3
Heart values are shown in whole hearts. Character rules and health limits can affect the result.
In a run
Practical note
The protection is especially useful in a long fight after the first hit, but the first hit still matters.
Reference
Game data and sources
The item ID, quality and pool listings, icon, game-file tags, and short pickup line come from the extracted Repentance files. This effect explanation is an editorial summary checked against the references below. Repentance+ can differ. Charge and pickup values shown above also come from the extracted items.xml.
