Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 24014; published online: 01 April 2016; updated: 11 July 2016

This Article contains errors in Table 1, where the column headings ‘Without SMs (n = 105)’ and ‘With SMs (n = 23) are inverted. The correct Table 1 appears below.

Table 1 Clinical characteristics of HNSCC patients in a 13 years of follow-up cohort.