OR Oncology Reports 1021-335X 1791-2431 D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/or.2021.8208 OR-0-0-08208 Retraction lncRNA XIST promotes the progression of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma by sponging miR-144 to regulate IRS1 expression CuiChang-Lei LiYi-Ning CuiXiang-Yan WuXin 12 2021 21 10 2021 46 6 257 Copyright: © Cui et al. 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.

Oncol Rep 43: 525-535, 2020; DOI: 10.3892/or.2019.7438

The authors wish to retract their research article entitled ‘lncRNA XIST promotes the progression of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma by sponging miR-144 to regulate IRS1 expression’, published in Oncology Reports 43: 525–535, 2020. They have found that, having repeated several of the experiments, XIST expression does not appear to affect LSCC cell apoptosis. In addition, some of their original data had been lost due to computer damage. Therefore, all authors are in agreement that this paper published in Oncology Reports should be retracted to maintain the integrity of the scientific record.

All the named authors on the paper agree to this retraction, and they sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that might result from the retraction of this article.