Long Noncoding RNA LINC00173 Promotes the Malignancy of Melanoma by Promoting the Expression of IRS4 Through Competitive Binding to microRNA-493 [Retraction].

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.2147/CMAR.S243869.].

Yang F, Lei P, Zeng W, Gao J, Wu N. Cancer Manag Res. 2020;12:3131–3144.

The Editor and Publisher of Cancer Management and Research wish to retract the published article. Concerns were raised over the tumor xenograft data presented in the article. The authors responded to our initial queries but were unable to provide satisfactory original data for their study. Given concerns relating to the validity of the study’s findings the Editor advised for the article to be retracted.

Our decision-making was informed by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retraction.

The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.