The journal retracts the article, “Animal Models in Bladder Cancer. Biomedicines 2021, 9, 1762” [1]. Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the publisher regarding a significant overlap with a previously published article Insights from “Animal Models of Bladder Cancer: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities Oncotarget 2017, 8, 57766–57781” [2].
Adhering to our complaint procedure, an investigation was conducted, which revealed an unacceptably high level of similarity between this manuscript and the previously mentioned publication. As a result, this article is retracted.
This retraction was approved by the Editor in Chief of the journal Biomedicines.
The authors agreed to this retraction.
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