Correction to: British Journal of Cancer (2015) 112, 1215–1222. doi:10.1038/bjc.2015.81; published online 12 March 2015

Upon publication of the above paper in the British Journal of Cancer, the authors noted an error in the presentation of a contributing author’s surname. The name of author ‘A-M M Masson’ should have been written as ‘A-M Mes-Masson’. This has been corrected above.