Correction to: BMC Cancer (2020) 20:196

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-6589-x

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in the author group.

It was reported that Tetsuro Hikichi was missing and the corrected author group is as follows:

Ryota Tamura1, Yukina Morimoto1, Kenzo Kosugi1, Mizuto Sato1, Yumiko Oishi1, Ryo Ueda1, Ryogo Kikuchi2, Hideaki Nagashima1, Tetsuro Hikichi4, Shinobu Noji3, Yutaka Kawakami3, Hikaru Sasaki1, Kazunari Yoshida1 and Masahiro Toda1*

The competing interests statement has been updated to:

TH is an employee of OncoTherapy Science, Inc.

The original article [1] has been corrected.