Propanc Health Group and its research partners identified that pancreatic proenzymes are able to suppress a long-silent, embryonic program reactivated by cancer cells, called the Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition, or EMT, by returning cancer cells back towards normal behavior. This is important because certain cancer cells develop traits such as motility, invasiveness and a resistance to readily dying. They also become "stem-cell" like and develop the ability to seed new tumors. This process, called metastasis, is responsible for approximately 90% of deaths from cancer.