OL Oncology Letters 1792-1074 1792-1082 D.A. Spandidos 10.3892/ol.2025.14894 OL-29-3-14894 Retraction [Retracted] Paclitaxel induces apoptosis and reduces proliferation by targeting epidermal growth factor receptor signaling pathway in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma HuJing ZhangNa WangRonglin HuangFei LiGuang 03 2025 20 01 2025 29 3 148 Copyright: © 2025 Hu et al. 2025 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.

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Following the publication of this paper, it was drawn to the Editor's attention by a concerned reader that the cell apoptotic assay data shown in Fig. 2B on p. 2380 and certain of the western blotting data shown in Fig. 3 on p. 2381 had already appeared in an article written by different authors that had already been submitted for publication.

Owing to the fact that the contentious data in the above article had already been submitted for publication prior to its submission to Oncology Letters, the Editor has decided that this paper should be retracted from the Journal. The authors were asked for an explanation to account for these concerns, but the Editorial Office did not receive a reply. The Editor apologizes to the readership for any inconvenience caused.