Correction: BMC Cancer 24, 368 (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-024-12021-2

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors noticed a typesetting error, whereby the equal contributions statement was erroneously omitted. The equal contributions statement should read: Yang Tan and Li-juan Feng have contributed equally to the study as co-first authors.

The original article [1] has been corrected.