“…Pemetrexed maintenance therapy resulted in PFS of 5.4 months. [30] One of the two other smaller retrospective studies with 36 patients incorporating maintenance chemotherapy showed survival benefit over 6 months compared to no maintenance therapy. [20,31] The benefit may have been overestimated due to case selection bias of maintenance therapy in better PS and fewer number of patients in the above retrospective case audits [ Table 2].…”