Correction to: British Journal of Cancer (2013) 109, 60–67. doi:10.1038/bjc.2013.226

Since the advance online publication of this paper in May 2013, the authors realised that fresh calculations of the cohort of testicular cancer patients were required after omitting nine patients who received radiotherapy. This resulted in slightly incorrect numbers presented in the data displayed in Tables 2, 4 and 5, and in sections of the Results.

Table 2 Characteristics of GCT survivors according to treatment group and of healthy subjects
Table 4 Prevalence of metabolic syndrome according to NCEP-ATPIII (upper part) and IDF criteria (lower part) in survivors and in healthy subjects
Table 5 Metabolic syndrome prevalence and odds ratio’s in four cross-sectional studies

In order to present the results correctly moving forward, the data have now been corrected in the paper which appears in this issue and are represented in the Tables following (see below).