Retraction Note to: Tumor Biol (2015) 36:2437–2445
DOI 10.1007/s13277-014-2854-4
This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief, the International Society of Oncology and BioMarkers (ISOBM) and the Publisher per the Committee on Publication Ethics guidelines. The article shows evidence of irregularities in authorship during the submission process, there is strong reason to believe that the peer review process was compromised and the article contains patchwork plagiarism from a variety of sources.
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Shafiee, R., Shariat, A., Khalili, S. et al. Retraction Note to: Diagnostic investigations of canine prostatitis incidence together with benign prostate hyperplasia, prostate malignancies, and biochemical recurrence in high-risk prostate cancer as a model for human study. Tumor Biol. 37, 16419 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13277-016-5475-2
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