Retraction to: Cancer Gene Ther 28:679–692; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41417-020-00249-6, published online 20 November 2020

The authors have retracted this article because there were errors in their statistical methods. Tukey’s post hoc test was used for analysis of the OD values in Figures 1–5 and the tumor average growth in Figure 6; however, Two-Way Repeated Measures ANOVA should have been used. The results and conclusions are therefore unreliable. All authors agree with this retraction.