Retraction: inhibitory effect of lovastatin on human lung cancer cell proliferation by regulating the ERK1/2 and COX-2 pathways
Retraction

Retraction: inhibitory effect of lovastatin on human lung cancer cell proliferation by regulating the ERK1/2 and COX-2 pathways

Sha Liu1#, Ping Yang1#, Mingkung Wang1#, Shuang Zhang1, Jie Wang2, Tao Pan1, Ping Zhou1

1Department of Radiotherapy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China; 2Department of Respiratory Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China

#These authors contributed equally to this work as co-first authors.

Correspondence to: Tao Pan, BS; Ping Zhou, MD. Department of Radiotherapy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, 31 Longhua Road, Longhua District, Haikou 570102, China. Email: tao.pan@hainmc.edu.cn; pingzhou0814@163.com.

Submitted Apr 16, 2024. Accepted for publication May 22, 2024. Published online Jun 13, 2024.

doi: 10.21037/tcr-2024-3


Retraction to: Transl Cancer Res 2022;11:813-22.

The article “Inhibitory effect of lovastatin on human lung cancer cell proliferation by regulating the ERK1/2 and COX-2 pathways” (doi: 10.21037/tcr-22-346) published in the Vol 11, No 4 (April 2022) issue of Translational Cancer Research has been retracted at the request by all the authors because of controversial images in the study. We apologize for the inconvenience caused.


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Cite this article as: Liu S, Yang P, Wang M, Zhang S, Wang J, Pan T, Zhou P. Retraction: inhibitory effect of lovastatin on human lung cancer cell proliferation by regulating the ERK1/2 and COX-2 pathways. Transl Cancer Res 2024;13(6):3181. doi: 10.21037/tcr-2024-3

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