Correction to: Cancer Cell Int (2017) 17:82 DOI 10.1186/s12935-017-0451-5

Upon publication of the original article [1], it was noticed that corresponding author status has been erroneously attributed to José Antonio Fagundes Assumpção. The corresponding author of this manuscript should be noted as José Raimundo Corrêa (correa@unb.br).

This error has since been acknowledged and corrected in this Correction.