Correction to: BMC Cancer 20, 1062 (2020)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-07493-x

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in the funding statement. The funding number was mistakenly given as PWZxk 2017–17 instead of PWZxk 2017–27.

The original article [1] has been corrected.