Correction to: Cancer Cell Int (2017) 17:36 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12935-017-0407-9

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors notified us the transwell invasion image for ASO-NC of HeLa cell in Fig. 3b was wrongly placed by mistake during the preparation of the figure. The corrected version of Fig. 3b is provided below (in the red box). This correction does not change the conclusions of this paper.

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