Raymond Javan ChanPatsy YatesQiuping LiHiroko KomatsuVioleta LopezMyat ThandarSelva Titus ChackoWinnie Kwok Wei SoKanaungnit PongthavornkamolMyungsun YiPongpak PittayapanJesson ButconDavid WyldAlex MolassiotisBicol UniversityRoyal Brisbane and Women's HospitalYong Loo Lin School of MedicineKeio UniversitySeoul National UniversityMahidol UniversityFaculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol UniversityQueensland University of Technology QUTHong Kong Polytechnic UniversityJiangnan UniversityChinese University of Hong KongChristian Medical College, VelloreUniversity of Nursing2019-08-232019-08-232018-03-01BMC Cancer. Vol.18, No.1 (2018)147124072-s2.0-85042748331https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/45235© 2018 The Author(s). It has been highlighted that the original manuscript [1] contains a typesetting error in the surname of Jesson Butcon. This was incorrectly captured as Jessica Butcon in the original manuscript which has since been updated.Mahidol UniversityBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicineErratumSCOPUS10.1186/s12885-018-4105-3