Front. Pharmacol. Frontiers in Pharmacology Front. Pharmacol. 1663-9812 Frontiers Media S.A. 1781979 10.3389/fphar.2026.1781979 Retraction Retraction: Paeonol suppresses proliferation and motility of non-small-cell lung cancer cells by disrupting STAT3/NF-κB signaling Frontiers Editorial Office 10.3389/fphar.2026.1781979 Frontiers Editorial Office * Correspondence: Frontiers Editorial Office, research.integrity@frontiersin.org 27 01 2026 2026 17 1781979 06 01 2026 06 01 2026 Copyright © 2026 Frontiers Editorial Office. 2026 Frontiers Editorial Office https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. A Retraction of the Original Research Article Paeonol suppresses proliferation and motility of non-small-cell lung cancer cells by disrupting STAT3/NF-κB signaling by Zhang L, Chen W-X, Li L-L, Cao Y-Z, Geng Y-D, Feng X-J, Wang A-Y, Chen Z-L, Lu Y and Shen A-Z (2020). Front. Pharmacol. 11:572616. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.572616 section-at-acceptance Pharmacology of Anti-Cancer Drugs

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