Erratum to “Incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma among older Americans attributable to hepatitis C and hepatitis B: 2001 through 2013”

Abstract

This erratum corrects the following:

Shiels MS, Engels EA, Yanik EL, McGlynn KA, Pfeiffer RM, O’Brien TR. Incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma among older Americans attributable to hepatitis C and hepatitis B: 2001 through 2013. Cancer. 2019;125(15):2621-2630. doi:10.1002/cncr.32129

Please note that a data importation error resulted in the age-specific hepatocellular carcinoma rates being calculated with the full population, rather than the age-specific population, as the denominator. Although this error reduced each age-specific rate, it did not change the interpretation of the trends or the inferences of the study. The authors apologize for the error and have included edited versions of Table 2 (with changes marked in italics) and Figure 2. In addition, the text on page 2625 should be edited as follows (with changes again marked in italics): “HCC rates increased across age groups (ages 66-75 years: 3.13% per year; ages 76-85 years: 3.91% per year; and age ≥86 years: 2.45% per year) and were highest among individuals aged 66 to 75 years.”