Retraction Note to: Cancer Cell Int (2019) 19:211
10.1186/s12935-019-0926-7
The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article due to concerns regarding ethics approval and data integrity.
The authors contacted the journal asking to retract the article citing shortcoming and deficiencies in their work. Furthermore, from the article it appears the ethics approval was obtained in 2017, however the tissue sample collection took place in 2013 and 2014. The authors did not provide evidence of ethics approval or respond to further correspondence from the Publisher or Editor.
The Editors-in-Chief therefore no longer have confidence in the integrity of the data in this article.
The Authors did not respond to correspondence from the Publisher about this retraction.
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The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1186/s12935-019-0926-7
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Zhiqin Li, Yushu Hu and Qinglei Zeng contributed equally to this work.
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