Correction to: Leukemia advance online publication, 23 September 2010; doi:10.1038/leu.2010.215

Since the publication of this paper, the authors have noticed an error on page 3 of their article. The correct sentence is shown below:

‘In the phase III study of nilotinib versus imatinib as first-line treatment for patients with CP CML, patients receiving imatinib were more likely to experience all-grade peripheral edema, eyelid edema and periorbital edema (14, 13 and 12%, respectively) than patients receiving nilotinib 300 mg twice daily (5, 1 and <1%, respectively) or nilotinib 400 mg twice daily (5, 2 and 1%, respectively).’

The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused.