Retraction: Cyclooxygenase-2 mediates puerarin to inhibit the invasion and metastasis of lung cancer A549 cells

Retraction to: Transl Cancer Res 2017;6:493-501

The article “Cyclooxygenase-2 mediates puerarin to inhibit the invasion and metastasis of lung cancer A549 cells” (doi: 10.21037/tcr.2017.06.18) which published on page 493-501 of the June 2017 Issue of the Translational Cancer Research needs to be retracted, as overlap with a previous publication has been noted. We deeply apologize for the inconvenience caused.

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