Correction to: BMC Cancer 21, 596 (2021)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-08304-7

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in the contribution section of this article. Sung Hoon Choi and Hee-Sub Yoon contributed equally to this work and are considered co-first authors.

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