Correction to: World J Surg Oncol 20, 33 (2022)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12957-022-02506-4

Following the publication of the original article [1], the affiliation of the 3rd author named Ahmed M. Fouad was written wrongly as

4 Department of Public Health, Community Medicine, Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Fuzhou, China,

It should be

4 Department of Public Health, Community Medicine, Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt .

In the Authors contribution section, „HA, HF, AF, and WMG carried out the study and analyzed the data“ should be „HA, HF, AF, MF and WMG carried out the study and analyzed the data“

The original article has been updated.