This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Steroids has retracted this article because of image duplication. Aspects of the image in Figure 7B of this article have been confirmed to be a duplicate of an image (labelled Figure 8B) which appeared in an article titled: ‘Resveratrol Induces Apoptosis in Thyroid Cancer Cell Lines via a MAPK- and p53-Dependent Mechanism’, published in JCEM, Volume 87, Issue 3, 1 March 2002, pages 1223-1232, https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem.87.3.8345. Steroids can not confirm the authenticity of the image provided in this manuscript.