Liu WW, Li WD, Zhang YJ, Zhang ML. Cancer Manag Res. 2021;13:439–447.
We, the Editors and Publisher of Cancer Management and Research, have retracted the following article.
Following publication of the article, the authors raised concerns over the duplication of the two bar charts in Figure 5D. In addition, concerns were also raised about the duplication of images from Figure 2 with images from an unrelated article. Specifically,
The image for Figure 2C, MDA-MB-231, miR-497-5p-inhibitor, has been duplicated with the image for Figure 2d, A549, inhibit-NC, from Ge H, Wang L, Chen W, Wang L. Mechanism of miR-760 Reversing Lung Cancer Immune Escape by Downregulating IDO1 and Eliminating Regulatory T Cells Based on Mathematical Biology. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2022;2022: Article ID 2960773. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/2960773.
When approached for an explanation, the authors were cooperative but were unable to provide a sufficient explanation for the image duplication or provide sufficient original data for their study. As verifying the validity of published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, we are therefore retracting the article and the authors agreed with this decision.
We have been informed in our decision-making by our editorial policies and COPE guidelines.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.