Following the publication of this article, the authors have realized that the corrsesponding author's name was printed incorrectly in the journal: This was mispelled as "Jin Zhou". The corrected name (Jing Zhou) is printed above. The authors regret any inconvenience this has caused, and thank the Editor for allowing them the opportunity to publish a Corrigendum.[the original article was published in International Journal of Oncology 55: 845‑859, 2019; DOI: 10.3892/ijo.2019.4867].