Abstract
Background It is well known that patients with advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) benefit substantially from platinum-based chemotherapy containing pemetrexed (pem/platinum ChT). Additionally, maintenance therapy with pemetrexed further improves survival in patients with clinical benefit (CB) to induction Cht. Evidence based data show that using pem instead of gemcitabine and maintenance therapy approach improves survival rates in pts with advanced non-squamous NSCLC to around 13 months (mo). The aim of our observational study was to evaluate the efficacy of first line pem/platinum in advanced non-squamous NSCLC treated in routine clinical practice.
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