officially retracts the paper entitled, “Long Noncoding RNA HOTAIR Contributes to Progression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Sponging miR-217-5p,” by Ximing Gong and Zhenya Zhu (Cancer Biother Radiopharm 2020;35(5):387–396; doi: 10.1089/cbr.2019.3070) due to the discovery that the paper was submitted from a paper mill, which is a violation of the journal's standard protocols.
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