Correction to: BMC Cancer 21, 559 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-08282-w

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in the author affiliation of Tian-yang Dai. The affiliation, should be:

2 Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest, Medical University, Sichuan, Luzhou, China.

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