This article refers to:
Peng Y, Hu S, Zhang K, et al. Cancer Manag Res. 2021;13:4829–4840.
At the authors request, the Editor and Publisher of Cancer Management and Research wish to retract the published article. The authors advised that errors were made in the statistical analysis of the data and they were unable to replicate some of the results described. In the interests of scientific integrity, the authors decided it best to retract the published article.
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