Zeng H, Wei Y, Wei X, Feng R. Cancer Manag Res. 2021;13:3589–3599.
The Editor and Publisher of Cancer Management and Research wish to retract the published paper. Concerns were raised over the alleged duplication of images in Figure 4B. Specifically:
Figure 4B, panel U2932 sh-LINC00908 appears to have been duplicated with panel FARAGE sh-LINC00908.
The authors, Yongqiang Wei, Xiaolei Wei and Ru Feng, each responded to our queries informing the journal that they had no knowledge of the article and believed the first author, Hong Zeng, had published the article without their permission. Despite several attempts, Hong Zeng could not be contacted by the journal. The Research Integrity Office of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, was contacted but was unable to satisfactorily verify the explanation provided by the authors. In addition, no raw data could be provided for the original study and its findings were determined to be invalid. The Editor requested for the article to be retracted.
Our decision-making was informed by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retraction.
The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.