Abstract:

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier policy on article withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Authors with the approval of the Editor-in-Chief. Concerns were raised about the representation in Figure 1C of the data from the indicated source, the inconsistency between statements from the text of the 'Materials and methods' section and Figures 4(III) and 4(IV), the ratio between tumor size and weight as presented by Figures 4(III) and 4(IV), the inconsistency between 'Materials and methods' and 'Results and discussion' sections regarding the LO2 cell line and the supplementary data, as described in an anonymized email sent to the journal which was forwarded to the authors. The Authors provided a Corrigendum of the published paper to address some expressions in the article that may be unclear and may consequently affect the understanding of the article. However, the corrections and explanations did not satisfactorily address the issues raised regarding the paper. Therefore, the Editors approved the Authors’ request for retraction of this article. The Authors apologized for any inconvenience this may cause".

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2025.122819