Correction to: British Journal of Cancer https://doi.org/10.1038/s41416-021-01334-9, published online 6 April 2021

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. Due to a typesetting error ‘sorafenib pretreated’ was changed to ‘sorafenibpretreated’ throughout the article. The correct spelling is ‘sorafenib pretreated. There were also minor errors in Fig. 1 and Fig. 3. The original article has been corrected.