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Best Practices in Lung Cancer Screening
This chapter reviews the best practices in lung cancer screening (LCS), including a review of the evidence base for LCS and patient selection, the benefits and harms of LCS, specialty society recommendations, ...
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Petrographic, trace element and isotopic evidence demonstrates that magma mixing preceded the eruption of the Garner Mountain andesite. The flow contains reversely zoned plagioclase phenocrysts and amphibole p...
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Several petrologic experiments have demonstrated that in igneous and metamorphic reactions amphibole minerals can break down by a subsolidus dehydration reaction, but evidence for the reaction in natural rocks...
