Time to Rethink Maintenance Pemetrexed in NSCLC?

Published Date: 27 Jun 2026

For patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), adding pemetrexed to maintenance pembrolizumab may only increase toxicity, not survival.

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