RETRACTED ARTICLE: Long-Noncoding RNA CASC9 Promotes Progression of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by Promoting the Expression of CDC6 Through Binding to HuR

This paper has been retracted.

Zhang X, Lian T, Fan W, et al. Cancer Manag Res. 2020;12:9033–9043.

We, the Editors and Publisher of Cancer Management and Research, have retracted the following article.

Following publication of the article, concerns were raised about the duplication of images from Figures 2, 3, and 5 with images from other unrelated articles. Specifically,

• Images for Figure 2D have been duplicated with images for Figure 3D from Zhang RL, Aimudula A, Dai JH, Bao YX. RASA1 inhibits the progression of renal cell carcinoma by decreasing the expression of miR-223-3p and promoting the expression of FBXW7. Biosci Rep. 2020;40(7):BSR20194143. https://doi.org/10.1042/BSR20194143 and Figure 4D from Chen J, Li X, Yang L, Li M, Zhang Y, Zhang J. CircASH2L Promotes Ovarian Cancer Tumorigenesis, Angiogenesis, and Lymphangiogenesis by Regulating the miR-665/VEGFA Axis as a Competing Endogenous RNA. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 2020;8:595585. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2020.595585.
• Images for Figure 3A have been duplicated with images for Figure 3A from Luo J, Jin Y, Li M, Dong L. Tumor suppressor miR‑613 induces cisplatin sensitivity in non‑small cell lung cancer cells by targeting GJA1. Molecular Medicine Reports. 2021;23:385.
• Images for Figure 3F have been duplicated with images for Figure 5C from Ruan L, Qian X. MiR-16-5p inhibits breast cancer by reducing AKT3 to restrain NF-κB pathway. Biosci Rep. 2019;39(8):BSR20191611. https://doi.org/10.1042/BSR20191611 (RETRACTED) and Figure 6F from Li Q, Wang W, Zhang M, Sun W, Shi W, Li F. Circular RNA circ-0016068 Promotes the Growth, Migration, and Invasion of Prostate Cancer Cells by Regulating the miR-330-3p/BMI-1 Axis as a Competing Endogenous RNA. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 2020;8:827. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00827.
• Images for Figure 5E have been duplicated with images for Figure 5G from Zhang RL, Aimudula A, Dai JH, Bao YX. RASA1 inhibits the progression of renal cell carcinoma by decreasing the expression of miR-223-3p and promoting the expression of FBXW7. Biosci Rep. 2020;40(7):BSR20194143. https://doi.org/10.1042/BSR20194143 and Figure 6I from Luo J, Jin Y, Li M, Dong L. Tumor suppressor miR‑613 induces cisplatin sensitivity in non‑small cell lung cancer cells by targeting GJA1. Molecular Medicine Reports. 2021;23:385.

The authors did not respond to our queries and were unable to provide an explanation for the duplicated images or provide data for the study. As verifying the validity of published work is core to the integrity of the scholarly record, we are therefore retracting the article and the authors were notified of this.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our editorial policies and COPE guidelines.

The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.