Retraction:

Yang Lu^1,*, Fanjie Meng^2,*, Yang Yang³, Lan Li⁴, Donghao Wang¹, Yuantao Cui², Shangwen Dong² and Wanhua Wang³

¹Department of Intensive Care Unit, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin, 300060, China
²Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, 300052, China
³Department of Anesthesia, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin, 300060, China
⁴Key Laboratory of Pharmacology of Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulae, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, 300193, China
^*These authors have contributed equally to this work and share first authorship

Published: April 10, 2023

Copyright: © 2023 Lu 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This article has been retracted: Oncotarget is retracting this article at the request of the authors. The accuracy and authenticity of the data need further analysis. Figure 2 contains incorrect flow cytometry images, and Figures 1 and 3 contain inaccurate data based on flawed patient criteria. As a result, the conclusions of this paper can no longer be verified. All authors, as well as the oversight committee of Tianjin Medical University, have agreed to the retraction of this paper.

Original article: Oncotarget. 2017; 8:73774–73786. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.17908