Correction to: Cancer Commun (2019) 39:40 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40880-019-0380-x

In the original publication of this article [1], the first affiliation name in the Author details section should be updated to ‘Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital & Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Shenzhen 518116, China’ because the affiliation has been renamed from Jun. 15th, 2019.