Abstract
After the publication of the article, the authors informed us that they had consent from the patients involved in the study, but not from the next‑of‑kin of the patients, for their clinical data to have been published (Fig. 1A‑E). Following on from a request made by the Ethics Committee of the Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical College that these data either be replaced in the article, or that the article be retracted, the authors identified 10 new volunteers and asked the patients and their families to sign informed consent according to ethical requirements. The experiments were repeated according to the previous experimental design, and novel data were obtained. The results obtained were consistent with the previous clinical data.The revised version of Fig. 1, including the data from the new patients, is shown opposite. As stated, the revised data shown for Fig. 1A‑E do not affect the overall conclusions reported in the paper. The authors apologize to the Editor of Oncology Reports and to the readership for any inconvenience caused. [the original article was published in Oncology Reports 37: 1451‑1460, 2017; DOI: 10.3892/or.2017.5386].