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Oncotarget. 2025; 16:813-813. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28780

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Jun Feng1, Hua-Wen Chen1, Li-Juan Pi1, Jin Wang1, Da-Qian Zhan1

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei, P.R. China

Published: November 14, 2025

Copyright: © 2025 Feng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

This article has been retracted: Oncotarget’s investigation has found that several images were published elsewhere in a different scientific context. Specifically, Figure 2A contains an image also present in Figure 3 ​of a concurrently published article by a different research group [1], and in Figure 1 of [2]. Both of these articles have been retracted. Furthermore, Figure 2C overlaps with an image from Figure 6B of a later-published, unrelated paper [3], which has also been retracted. The authors have not responded to the journal's repeated requests to address the concerns raised. As a result, the editors have concluded that the findings presented in this article are invalid, and an editorial decision has been made to retract the paper.


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Oncotarget. 2017; 8:10161–10170. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.14328.


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