Oncol Lett 12: 1896-1900, 2016; DOI: 10.3892/ol.2016.4870
Following the publication of this article, we realize that a grant number was inadvertently omitted from the Acknowledgements section. The first sentence of the Acknowledgements should have read as follows:
“The present study was supported by the Medical Science and Technology Development Plan of Shandong Province (Jinan, China; grant nos. 2013WS0137 and 2014WS0358).”
We regret the omission of this grant number from the article, and the inconvenience caused to our sponsors.