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Front. Oncol., 05 February 2021
Sec. Cancer Molecular Targets and Therapeutics

Corrigendum: Bevacizumab Plus FOLFOX-4 Combined With Deep Electro-Hyperthermia as First-line Therapy in Metastatic Colon Cancer: A Pilot Study

Girolamo Ranieri*Girolamo Ranieri1*Carmelo LafaceCarmelo Laface1Mariarita LaforgiaMariarita Laforgia2Simona De SummaSimona De Summa3Mariangela PorcelliMariangela Porcelli1Francesco MacinaFrancesco Macina1Michele AmmendolaMichele Ammendola4Pasquale MolinariPasquale Molinari1Gianfranco LaulettaGianfranco Lauletta5Alessandra Di PaloAlessandra Di Palo6Giuseppe RubiniGiuseppe Rubini6Cristina FerrariCristina Ferrari6Cosmo Damiano GadaletaCosmo Damiano Gadaleta1
  • 1Interventional and Medical Oncology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “G. Paolo II”, Bari, Italy
  • 2Pharmacy Unit, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “G. Paolo II”, Bari, Italy
  • 3Molecular Diagnostics and Pharmacogenetics Unit, IRCCS Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II”, Bari, Italy
  • 4Department of Health Science, Digestive Surgery Unit, University “Magna Graecia” Medical School, Germaneto, Italy
  • 5Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, Section of Internal Medicine “G. Baccelli”, University of Bari Medical School, Bari, Italy
  • 6Nuclear Medicine Unit, D.I.M., University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

A Corrigendum on
Bevacizumab Plus FOLFOX-4 Combined With Deep Electro-Hyperthermia as First-line Therapy in Metastatic Colon Cancer: A Pilot Study

By Ranieri G, Laface C, Laforgia M, De Summa S, Porcelli M, Macina F, Ammendola M, Molinari P, Lauletta G, Di Palo A, Rubini G, Ferrari C and Gadaleta CD (2020). Front. Oncol. 10:590707. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.590707

In the original article, the ethical consideration statement was inserted by error in the section Patients and Methods, sub-section Statistical Analysis, as paragraphs 3 and 4:

“The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and Good Clinical Practice Guidelines. The Internal Ethical Committee approved the study without reserve together with the module for patients’ informed consent (Trial n° 871 of the internal protocol numbering).
Written informed consent was obtained from all patients before study participation.”

The corrected Statistical Analysis section with the paragraphs removed appears below:

“The primary endpoints were disease control rate (DCR) and PFS. The secondary endpoint was OS. DCR was considered as the percentage of patients who had the best response rating [complete response (CR), partial response (PR), or stable disease (SD)] and was assessed at 90 days (timepoint-1) and at 180 days (timepoint-2).
PFS was defined as the time from the start of treatment until the date of the first radiological evidence of PD or the date of death derived from any cause, whichever occurred first. OS was specified as the time from the start of treatment until the date of death.
Fisher’s exact test was used to assess the correlation between DCR, PFS, OS, and tumor location (left-sided CRC/right-sided CRC), K-RAS status (wild type/mutation), number of metastatic sites (1–2, ≥3), liver involvement (yes/no), and/or lung involvement (yes/no). R barplot() function was used to create barplots. For survival analyses, the Kaplan–Meier method was used to estimate the correlation between PFS, OS rates, and clinic-pathological variables at 95% CI. The log-rank test was used to compare survival curves. The “survival” R package has been used to perform survival analyses. Cox proportional hazards regression test using the ‘coxph’ function of the R ‘survival’ package has been elaborated. Survival curves have been graphically depicted by “ggplot 2” R package. All statistical analyses were performed using R version 3.6.”

The Ethics Statement section was misleading as it appeared in the published version:

“The studies involving human participants were reviewed and approved by Comitato Etico Istituto Tumori “Giovanni Paolo II” Istituto di Ricovero a carattere scientifico. The patients/participants provided their written informed consent to participate in this study.”

The corrected Ethics Statement appears below:

“Hyperthermia is recognized and reimbursed by Italian Health System therapeutic strategy in association with chemotherapy or radiotherapy in the treatment of tumors, being identified by the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) with the code 9985. Consequently, this treatment does not need a clinical trial, but only the signed informed consent. The patients/participants provided their written informed consent to participate in this study.”

The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

Keywords: tumor angiogenesis, bevacizumab, hyperthermia, chemotherapy, metastatic colon cancer

Citation: Ranieri G, Laface C, Laforgia M, De Summa S, Porcelli M, Macina F, Ammendola M, Molinari P, Lauletta G, Di Palo A, Rubini G, Ferrari C and Gadaleta CD (2021) Corrigendum: Bevacizumab Plus FOLFOX-4 Combined With Deep Electro-Hyperthermia as First-line Therapy in Metastatic Colon Cancer: A Pilot Study. Front. Oncol. 10:637880. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.637880

Received: 04 December 2020; Accepted: 07 December 2020;
Published: 05 February 2021.

Approved by: Frontiers Editorial Office, Frontiers Media SA, Switzerland

Copyright © 2021 Ranieri, Laface, Laforgia, De Summa, Porcelli, Macina, Ammendola, Molinari, Lauletta, Di Palo, Rubini, Ferrari and Gadaleta. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

*Correspondence: Girolamo Ranieri, Z2lyb3JhbkB0aXNjYWxpLml0

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