Oncol Lett 9: [Related article:] 739-744, 2015; DOI:
10.3892/ol.2014.2779
We wish to retract our research article entitled
‘3-Bromopyruvate inhibits human gastric cancer tumor growth in nude
mice via the inhibition of glycolysis’ published in Oncology
Letters 9 739–744, 2015. Following the publication of this article,
an interested reader drew to our attention that two Figures (Figs.
1 and 2) and one Table (Table II) featured in the above-named
article had also appeared, either in their entirety or in part, in
our previous publication in Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer
Prevention: Xian SL, Cao W, Zhang XD and Lu YF: Inhibitory effects
of 3-bromopyruvate on human gastric cancer implant tumors in nude
mice. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 15 3175–3178, 2014.
We had intended that the paper published in Asian
Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention focused on the observed
phenomenon, and the paper in Oncology Letters (a subsequent study)
explored details of the mechanism. However, we realize that our
submission to Oncology Letters was in breach of the requirement
that a submitted paper should represent ‘an original study
presenting novel work, that it has not been previously submitted to
or accepted by any other journal’. The paper was submitted to
Oncology Letters 2 months after the submission of the preceding
paper to Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, where it was
under consideration for publication at that time. Therefore, we are
going to retract the paper from Oncology Letters. All the named
authors agree to this retraction. We sincerely apologize for this
mistake, and thank the reader of our article who drew this matter
to our attention. Furthermore, we regret any inconvenience this
mistake has caused.
