WITHDRAWN: Treatment of cancer by low intensity laser radiation therapy

Abstract

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). The Editorial Board of Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology retracts this paper due to an accusation of plagiarism. After careful review, the Editorial Board believes sufficient evidence exists to support this accusation. The author does not dispute the fact that: (i) The paper "Treatment of cancer by low intensity laser radiation therapy" -- which was submitted to Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology (PBMB) in June 2017, and which was accepted for publication (http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.11.002)-- has been published previously in near-identical form. (ii) The previous publication appeared in the June 2017 issue of Cancer Biology (http://doi.org/10.7537/marscbj070217.11). (iii) The author explains that this is an administrative mix-up with another paper published in Cancer Biology in September 2017 (http://doi.org/10.7537/marscbj070317.03). The article duplicates significant paragraphs from the other published article. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.