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Article History

Received: 2 April 2018

Accepted: 27 April 2018

First Online: 15 May 2018

Change Date: 20 October 2022

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: This article has been retracted. Please see the Retraction Notice for more detail:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13046-022-02517-9

Change Date: 20 December 2019

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:

Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13046-019-1501-8

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: Primary hepatocarcinoma samples were obtained from the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University and Guangdong General Hospital with informed consent, according to the Institutional Review Board approval. HCC samples were recorded by the obtained time, and some samples (#1, #4 and #5) with sphere formation capacity were selected for most of the assays.

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