Oncol Rep 36: [Related article:] 2951–2959, 2016; DOI:
10.3892/or.2016.5077
Following the publication of the above article and a
corrigendum (doi: 10.3892/or.2020.7503) that was published to take
account of duplications of data noted in Fig. 3 (panels ‘C’ and
‘D’) and Fig. 7 (also panels ‘C’ and ‘D’), it has come to light
that the originally published version of Fig. 7 also contained a
small overlapping section of data comparing Fig. 7A with 7D.
Upon receiving notification of this further issue
associated with the presentation of data in Fig. 7, owing to the
non-availability of the first author who performed these
experiments and the inability to identify the original data for
this figure, the authors proposed removing the data from Fig. 7A-D,
and simply presenting Fig. 7E in a revised version of this figure
in a subsequent corrigendum; however, the Editor of Oncology
Reports requested that the authors repeat the experiments shown
in Fig. 7. and submit a new and complete version of this figure for
the corrigendum. The authors were agreeable to this course of
action, although to date, the proposed revised version of this
figure has not been received by the Editorial Office; therefore, we
are now issuing an Expression of Concern statement to notify
readers of the newly identified problems associated with the
presentation of certain of the data in this paper.
