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At the authors request, the Editor and Publisher of OncoTargets and Therapy wish to retract the published article. The authors have advised that the information provided for this article was incorrect and no ethics approval was given by the ethics committee of Huaihe Hospital of Henan University and no informed consent was given by any patient involved in the study. This is a breach of our Editorial Polices on research ethics and consent and the Editor has agreed with the decision to retract the paper.
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