Correction to: BMC Cancer 21, 153 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-07842-4

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in the author names. The given names and family names were erroneously transposed.

The correct author names are as follows:

Athanasios (given name) Tampakis (family name)

Ekaterini-Christina (given name) Tampaki (family name)

Afrodite (given name) Nonni (family name)

Ioannis D. (given name) Kostakis (family name)

Alberto (given name) Posabella (family name)

Konstantinos (given name) Kontzoglou (family name)

Markus (given name) von Flüe (family name)

Evangelos (given name) Felekouras (family name)

Gregory (given name) Kouraklis (family name)

Nikolaos (given name) Nikiteas (family name)

The author group has been updated above and the original article [1] has been corrected.