Yang R, Shui Y, Hu S, Zhang K, Wang Y, Peng Y. Cancer Manag Res. 2020;12:6935–6946.
At the authors request, the Editor and Publisher of Cancer Management and Research wish to retract the published paper. Following publication, the authors learned that the OTSCC cell lines described in the article had not been isolated from patient tissue samples but had in fact been cultured for several generations in a public lab prior to being used in the study. Thus, the authors have determined the study does not reliably indicate the results of patients with the type of cancer classification described, and the conclusions of the study are invalid.
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The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.