OR Oncology Reports 1021-335X 1791-2431 D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/or.2022.8255 OR-0-0-08255 Retraction lncRNA SNHG3 promotes breast cancer progression by acting as a miR-326 sponge ZhangHaipeng WeiNa ZhangWei ShenLishennan DingRongbo LiQian LiSimin DuYe 03 2022 04 01 2022 47 3 44 Copyright: © Zhang et al. 2022 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 44: 1502-1510, 2020; DOI: 10.3892/or.2020.7690

Following the publication of the above article, the authors have requested that it be retracted. Subsequently to having performed these experiments, the authors have realized that their MCF-7 cells had become contaminated while performing the colony formation and transwell experiments. Furthermore, they were unable to reproduce the results from the in vivo experiments, and knockdown of SNHG3 was found not to affect tumor growth in nude mice.

Following a further investigation in the Editorial Office, it also came to light that there were other possible anomalies associated with the presentation of the tumor images in Fig. 6B and the colony formation assay data in Fig. 2C. Therefore, theos article has been retracted from the Journal; all the authors agree to this retraction. The Editor and the authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.