Ret­rac­ted ar­tic­le: Motrinchuk A.Sh., Kurylev A.A. ESMO Guidance for reporting oncology real-world evidence (GROW). Real-World Data & Evidence. 2024;4(1):32-44. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.37489/2782-3784-myrwd-49. EDN: CKZYTJ

The article is retracted from the journal "Real-World Data & Evidence" by an official request to the editorial board of the journal by the Executive Editor - ESMO Journals, Dr Lewis H. Rowett, stating that "the similarities between the articles are striking, the full texts of the articles are identical in places" (letter date November 7, 2024).

Reason for retracting the article:

After re-checking the article for Antiplagiat, a decision was made to retract the article. The retraction of the article is due to the detection of incorrect and unformatted borrowing (plagiarism) in a previously published article. The article was published without reference to previous sources. Information about this was not disclosed to the Editor-in-Chief. Permission to republish the publication was not obtained.

Previously published article:

L. Castelo-Branco, A. Pellat, D. Martins-Branco, A. Valachis, J. W. G. Derksen, K. P. M. Suijkerbuijk, U. Dafni ,T. Dellaporta , A. Vogel, A. Prelaj, R. H. H. Groenwold, H. Martins, R. Stahel, J. Bliss, J. Kather, N. Ribelles , F. Perrone, P. S. Hall , R. Dienstmann, C. M. Booth, G. Pentheroudakis, S. Delaloge & M. Koopman. ESMO Guidance for Reporting Oncology Real-World evidence (GROW). Annals of Oncology 2023; 34: 1097-1112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annonc.2023.10.001

Minutes of the meeting of the Publication Ethics Committee of the journal "Real-World Data & Evidence" No. 1 dated 11.11.2024.

The Edi­to­ri­al Bo­ard wo­uld li­ke to ex­tend the­ir sin­ce­re apo­lo­gi­es for any in­con­ve­ni­en­ce this ret­rac­ti­on may ha­ve cau­sed.