Pancreatic Cancer - Are the Bacteria Driving the Aggressiveness of the Cancer?

A lot of the early work was just showing that these bacteria are there in tumor tissues and showing a correlation. We directly infected tumor cells and then measured their migratory capacity. So when we infect the cancer cells, they are more migratory. They're also more proliferative. And the speed at which that happens is greater for the pancreatic cancer cells that have these microbes inside of them.