Editorial Expression of Concern to: British Journal of Cancer https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2014.48, published online 06 February 2014

The Editor-in-Chief has issued an editorial Expression of Concern for this article. An Investigation Committee on Scientific Misconduct of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco and the University of California could not establish that the data in the replacement panels in Figure 4D in the Correction to this article published in 2018 [1] corresponded to the data of the original experiments. This finding was reviewed by the VA Office of Research Oversight (ORO) who concurred with the conclusion. Readers should therefore interpret the results and conclusions presented with caution. Hiroshi Hirata and Rajvir Dahiya do not agree with this statement. Yuji Hinoda, Varahram Shahryari, Yuichiro Tanaka and Z. Laura Tabatabai have not responded to any correspondence from the Publisher about this statement. The Publisher was not able to find a current email address for Guoren Deng.