Following the publication of the above article, the authors have realized that the way in which the western blotting results were presented in Fig. 6 was not optimal, and that original data should have been included in this figure in order that readers could have understood the content of this paper better. The authors regret that these errors were not picked up upon before the article went to print, and apologize to the readership for any confusion these errors may have caused. [the original article was published in Oncology Reports 41: 512-524, 2019; DOI: 10.3892/or.2018.6810].