Challenges in lung and thoracic pathology

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Thoracic pathology is a highly subspecialized and challenging area of diagnostic surgical pathology with significant recent updates in the classification of neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases. Advances in our understanding of the genomics of thoracic tumors are reshaping histologic classifications to make them more clinically relevant. Although molecular biology has greatly helped to better understand known diseases and define new entities, international collaborations and exchange of expertise and sample collections have become more important than ever. If anything, the current COVID19 pandemic with its urgent necessity to learn as much as possible and as soon as possible about a severe lung disease that most of us had never encountered before has dramatically shown the need for (and the power of) coordinated efforts of the global research community. …