Retraction notice cites issues in data analysis and validation of findings related to epithelial cells and cervical cancer.
This article titled “Single-cell RNA-sequencing Analysis Reveals the Promoting Role of the Hedgehog Pathway in Epithelial Cells during Cervical Cancer Progression”, published in Volume 32, Issue 33, 2025 of Current Medicinal Chemistry (10.2174/0109298673333784240819063118). The authors have requested the retraction of this article due to insufficient rigor in the data analysis, which prevented the conclusions from being reliably supported. Specifically, the study lacked adequate validation, omitted essential clinical correlation, and was affected by potential technical biases. The authors sincerely apologize to the editors and readers for this oversight. The Bentham Editorial Policy on Retraction can be found at https://benthamscience.com/editorial-policies-main.php. BENTHAM SCIENCE DISCLAIMER: It is a condition of publication that manuscripts submitted to this journal have not been published and will not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. Furthermore, any data, illustration, structure, or table that has been published elsewhere must be reported, and copyright permission for reproduction must be obtained. Plagiarism is strictly forbidden, and by submitting the article for publication, the authors agree that the publishers have the legal right to take appropriate action against the authors if plagiarism or fabricated information is discovered. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree that the copyright of their article is transferred to the publishers if and when the article is accepted for publication.
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