About the Authors

Jessica Davies

Jessica.Davies@roche.com

Affiliation F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom

Manali Patel

Affiliation Division of Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Cesare Gridelli

Affiliation Division of Medical Oncology, “S.G. Moscati” Hospital, Avellino, Italy

Filippo de Marinis

Affiliation Division of Thoracic Oncology, European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan, Italy

Daniel Waterkamp

Affiliation Diagnostics Information Solutions, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Pleasanton, California, United States of America

Margaret E. McCusker

Affiliation Diagnostics Information Solutions, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Pleasanton, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have the following interests to report: This study was sponsored by F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd. Ms. Davies is employed by Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd. and Dr. Waterkamp and Dr. McCusker are employed by F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG. Ms. Davies reports support for manuscript preparation from Roche-Genentech, during the conduct of the study; Employee; outside the submitted work. Dr. Gridelli reports personal fees from Roche, personal fees from Eli Lilly, outside the submitted work. Dr. McCusker reports support for manuscript preparation from Roche-Genentech, during the conduct of the study; Employee; stock ownership from Roche-Genentech, outside the submitted work. Dr. Waterkamp reports Employee of Roche/Genentech, outside the submitted work. Decision to publish and medical writing support was provided by scientific communication leaders Cindy Yun and Alicia Chung who are employees of Genentech Inc. Support in preparation of the manuscript was contracted to Health Interactions, Inc, and paid for by F. Hoffman-La Roche, Ltd. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JD MEM. Formal analysis: JD MEM. Funding acquisition: JD. Investigation: JD MEM. Methodology: JD MEM. Project administration: MEM. Resources: JD MEM. Supervision: MEM. Validation: MEM. Visualization: JD MEM. Writing – original draft: JD MEM. Writing – review & editing: JD MP CG FD DW MEM.