Retraction Note: Journal of Hematology & Oncology (2019) 12:135 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13045-019-0830-6

The Editor in Chief has retracted this article because of a number of further image irregularities in the figures were found after publication of a correction [1]. Specifically, there were a number of concerns related to the images and sizes of the tumours in Fig. 6c, d and i, as well as the partial overlaps in Fig. 6e and the corrected Fig. 6k. Additionally, the concerns related to potential repeated elements in the Western blots in Figs. 1a, 2a and 4e have remained unaddressed. Therefore, the Editor has lost confidence in the integrity of the article's findings.

Jiwei Guo does not agree to this retraction. Dan Jin, Yan Wu, Jing Du, Lijuan Yang, Xiaohong Wang, Weihua Di, Baoguang Hu, Jiajia An, Lingqun Kong, Lei Pan and Guoming Su did not respond to correspondence from the Editor about this retraction.