Retraction Note: Tetrathiomolybdate inhibits head and neck cancer metastasis by decreasing tumor cell motility, invasiveness and by promoting tumor cell anoikis

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Retraction Note: Mol Cancer 9, 206 (2010)

https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-4598-9-206

The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article. After publication, concerns were raised regarding highly similar images between this article and the authors’ earlier publication [1]. Specifically, Fig. 5A TM- image in this article appears to overlap with Fig. 6C UM-SCC-74 A + EC-Bcl-2 in [1], and Fig. 5A TM + image appears to overlap with Fig. 6C UM-SCC-74 A + EC-VC and UM-SCC-74 A + EC-Bcl-2 + α-IL-8 images in [1]. In addition, Fig. 1C EC-VC + TM and EC-Bcl-2 + TM images appear to overlap.

The Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the presented data.

The authors have not responded to any correspondence from the editor or publisher about this retraction.

1. Kumar P, Ning Y, Polverini PJ. Endothelial cells expressing Bcl-2 promotes tumor metastasis by enhancing tumor angiogenesis, blood vessel leakiness and tumor invasion. Lab Invest. 2008;88(7):740–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/labinvest.2008.46.

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1. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

   Pawan Kumar, Arti Yadav, Mozaffarul Islam, Quintin Pan & Theodoros N. Teknos

2. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

   Samip N. Patel

3. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann, Arbor, MI, USA

   Sofia D. Merajver

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Kumar, P., Yadav, A., Patel, S.N. et al. Retraction Note: Tetrathiomolybdate inhibits head and neck cancer metastasis by decreasing tumor cell motility, invasiveness and by promoting tumor cell anoikis. Mol Cancer 24, 104 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12943-025-02316-8

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