Fan L, Wei Y, Ding X, Li B. Onco Targets Ther. 2019;12:9585–9598.
At the request of the authors, the Editor and Publisher of OncoTargets and Therapy wish to retract the published article.
We were notified by the authors of potential issues relating to the reliability of the data in the published article. There was also some potential image duplication in Figure 5:
Figure 5A Migration Panel CNE-1-vector appears to be duplicated with Figure 5A Invasion CNE-1-vector.
Figure 5A Migration Panel CNE-1-C3 appears to be duplicated with Figure 5A Invasion CNE-1-C3.
Figure 5D CNE-2-ShCntrl Panel 24H appears to be duplicated with Figure 5D CNE-2-ShC3 Panel 24H.
The authors were unable to provide the required raw data for this study and the editor determined the findings of the study were no longer supported and agreed with the authors request for the article to be retracted. The authors wish to apologise for this error.
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The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.