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RETRACTED ARTICLE: miR-765 Acts as a Tumor Promoter and Indicates Poor Prognosis in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Authors Wang J, Wang L, Zhang C

Received 27 September 2020

Accepted for publication 11 December 2020

Published 4 August 2021 Volume 2021:14 Pages 4335—4343

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/OTT.S284212

Checked for plagiarism Yes

Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 3

Editor who approved publication: Prof. Dr. Nicola Silvestris



This paper has been retracted.

Wang J, Wang L, Zhang C. Onco Targets Ther. 2021;14:4335-4343.

We, the Editors and Publisher of OncoTargets and Therapy, have retracted the following article.

Following publication of the article, concerns were raised about the duplication of images from Figure 4 with images from other unrelated articles. Specifically,

  • Images from Figure 4A and 4B have been duplicated with images for Figure 4B from Wang C, Wang J, Zhang J, Li Y, Sun Q, Guo F, An X. MicroRNA‑623 inhibits tumor progression and is a predictor of poor prognosis of breast cancer. Oncology Letters. 2020;20:386. https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2020.12249.

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The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.

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