Footnotes

• Handling editor Runjan Chetty.

• Contributors Both authors conceived, wrote and approved the final version of the editorial.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests GT reports personal fees (as speaker bureau or advisor) from Roche, MSD and Pfizer, outside the submitted editorial. PH has received honoraria from Roche, AstraZeneca, BMS, Novartis, Merck, MSD, Bayer, Qiagen, Lilly, Thermo Fisher and Biocartis, outside the submitted editorial.

• Patient consent for publication Not required.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.