Correction to: Cancer Cell Int (2021) 21:356 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12935-021-02072-x

In this article [1], the author name “Xiaobin Wu” was incorrectly written as “Xianbin Wu”. This has been corrected in this correction.

In addition, there was a printing mistake in Table 7. The correct information of 1714 is 14, 1417 is 17, 5350 is 50 and 6669 is 69. The corrected Table 7 is given below.

Table 7 Changes of NLR in patients of response and non-response groups