The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how globally interconnected health of individuals has become, and how international co-operation is needed to combat disease. This is not just with communicable diseases, but with non-communicable disease like cancer too. Due to the lack of in-person interactions at conferences due to the pandemic, there has been an avalanche of webcasts from vendors selling the newest novel health technologies such as the latest radiotherapy equipment, with presentations from oncologists on the wonderful results that they are getting using these technologies in oncology centres predominantly in the US and Europe. .