Correction to: Gastric Cancer https://doi.org/10.1007/s10120-019-01022-x

The authors would like to correct the error in the publication of the original article. The correction detail is given below:

The last sentence under the heading “Introduction” should read as “The Japanese Esophageal Society subclassification of Nishi’s proposal has 5 types, depending on the relative extent of esophageal or gastric involvement (E, EG, E = G, GE and G) and true cardia cancer is mostly represented by the EG, E = G or GE type Nishi tumors [4].”