Nature Reviews Cancer

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Reviews Cancer is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Linking pancreatic renewal and cancer initiation1419
Computing brain metastasis impact1198
Digging for treasures in the tumour interactome998
INVADEseq to study the intratumoural microbiota at host single-cell resolution869
An inhospitable site528
Fructose takes a detour to feed cancer517
Convergent inducers and effectors of T cell paralysis in the tumour microenvironment487
Emerging strategies to investigate the biology of early cancer451
Combinatorial strategies to target RAS-driven cancers422
Artificial intelligence in cancer research, diagnosis and therapy385
Oncofetal reprogramming in tumour development and progression379
Mapping the prostate cell family tree338
How medical anthropology can contribute to cancer research320
Tertiary lymphoid structures as hubs of antitumour immunity319
Author Correction: Fighting rare cancers: lessons from fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma301
Connie J. Eaves (1944–2024)281
Antihistamines boost immunotherapy274
The recruitment of metastasis-associated monocytes274
Fighting cancer with fat267
Translating premalignant biology to accelerate non-small-cell lung cancer interception253
Reply to ‘Heterogeneity of TP53 mutations necessitates differentiation with p53-rescue therapies’252
Beyond genetics: driving cancer with the tumour microenvironment behind the wheel248
Targeting transcription cycles in cancer246
Context-dependent functions of pattern recognition receptors in cancer227
The role of CRAF in cancer progression: from molecular mechanisms to precision therapies225
Epithelial and stromal co-evolution and complicity in pancreatic cancer222
No mutation, tumour initiation217
Impersonating neurons217
Under pressure211
Nanoreceptors take down mutant p53204
Measuring HLA disruption using MHC Hammer202
Tumour EVPs disrupt liver function198
Gut microbes produce novel genotoxic metabolites198
Dendritic cells rise and shine196
Removing barriers to address sex differences in anticancer drug toxicity183
Persistence is key174
Thelpers? More like Ttroublemakers164
Defining a ‘cells to society’ research framework for appendiceal tumours161
Remodelling of the tumour microenvironment by the kallikrein-related peptidases160
Tumour–host interactions through the lens of Drosophila159
Cancer stem cell–immune cell crosstalk in tumour progression158
3D bioprinted cancer models: from basic biology to drug development157
Moonlighting functions of glucose metabolic enzymes and metabolites in cancer156
Natural killer cells in antitumour adoptive cell immunotherapy152
How chemokines organize the tumour microenvironment151
Points of entry for tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes150
B-ring sterols to the rescue144
Bone voyage: immune crosstalk sets sail141
Identifying spatial cellular structures with SPACE-GM141
Visualizing intratumoural heterogeneity with EpicMIBI140
In-depth organoid profiling of pancreatic cancer140
Metabolic interplays between the tumour and the host shape the tumour macroenvironment133
Un-Fair Skin: racial disparities in acral melanoma research131
Leveraging the replication stress response to optimize cancer therapy125
The path to leptomeningeal metastasis125
Linking cell mechanical memory and cancer metastasis122
The plasticity of mRNA translation during cancer progression and therapy resistance118
Dynamics and specificities of T cells in cancer immunotherapy116
In situ decellularization of tissues to resolve the tumour-associated matrix115
Deciphering the cancer genome and epigenome112
Understanding and addressing race disparities in childhood cancer outcomes110
Encoding spatial tumour dynamics with Starfysh101
Taming TAMs in brain metastases98
The link between vitamin D and prostate cancer97
Race influences the tumour microbiome97
Targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy94
Polygenic scores in cancer90
Cancer nanomedicine86
Don’t blame the messenger: lessons learned for cancer mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic85
RNA splicing dysregulation and the hallmarks of cancer84
Acetyl-CoA metabolism in cancer84
Z-nucleic acids give immunotherapy a boost83
Author Correction: Antibody-based proteomics: fast-tracking molecular diagnostics in oncology81
Local CAR manufacturing81
Parity modulates epithelial–immune cell communication80
Defining precancer: a grand challenge for the cancer community79
Right ON target: a new RAS-GTP inhibitor79
A trojan horse to target spliceosome mutant cells77
NOTUM-mediated stem cell competition in CRC77
Prime editing GEMMs to model cancer mutations76
Androgen receptor signalling in non-prostatic malignancies: challenges and opportunities74
Chromothripsis in cancer74
Integrative medicine in oncology: redefining the standard of care73
Targeting ferroptosis as a vulnerability in cancer71
Tertiary lymphoid structures in anticancer immunity71
Starting a new job69
Neutrophils: a roadblock for immunotherapy68
Quantum probes in cancer research68
Functional lineage tracing to study the clonal evolution of therapy resistance68
Glycogen condensates drive tumorigenesis by trapping Hippo kinases68
In vivo labelling system to study cell neighbourhoods65
Revealing genomic secrets of archival FFPE samples63
Judith Campisi (1948–2024)62
Inferring cancer metabolism from gene-expression data60
New pathogen on the block60
The present and future of the Cancer Dependency Map58
Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data55
Recent advances in therapeutic cancer vaccines55
Immune-checkpoint inhibitor-mediated myocarditis: CTLA4, PD1 and LAG3 in the heart53
Cell states can give tumorigenesis a head start53
Carcinogenesis at single-cell resolution53
Bidirectional CART.BiTE cells bring new hope52
Microbiota links to immunotherapy toxicity52
Patient-derived organoids unveil sarcoma vulnerabilities51
Evolution and progression of Barrett’s oesophagus to oesophageal cancer45
Global post-mortem tissue donation programmes to accelerate cancer research45
Developing dietary interventions as therapy for cancer44
Transfer RNAs as dynamic and critical regulators of cancer progression44
A timeline of tumour-associated macrophage biology41
Epigenomic heterogeneity as a source of tumour evolution39
Traject3d for studying 3D cellular heterogeneity39
We cannot ignore the cancer risks of wildfires37
Author Correction: Integrative medicine in oncology: redefining the standard of care37
Harnessing the influenza virus to fight cancer35
Targeting cancer cell dormancy33
Digitally enhanced Raman spectroscopy32
Tissue clearing to examine tumour complexity in three dimensions32
Fcγ receptors and immunomodulatory antibodies in cancer31
Structural variations in cancer and the 3D genome30
Guardrails for the use of generalist AI in cancer care29
mRNA-based cancer therapeutics28
Immunogenic cell death in cancer: targeting necroptosis to induce antitumour immunity28
The role of ROS in tumour development and progression28
The immunological and metabolic landscape in primary and metastatic liver cancer25
Integrating microbiomics in cancer management24
CAFs promote CRPC23
Frozen silicified vaccines23
AACR 202423
Ethnically diverse cancer cell lines for drug testing22
EMT in chemoresistance21
Decoding the functional impact of the cancer genome through protein–protein interactions21
Male melanoma comes of age21
Next-generation epidemiologic cohorts for cancer aetiology20
Modelling and deciphering tumour metabolism in CRISPR screens19
Mechanisms driving the immunoregulatory function of cancer cells18
The role of eIF4F-driven mRNA translation in regulating the tumour microenvironment17
Fungi in cancer: not such a ‘fun-guy’16
Advances in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma16
Inflammatory neutrophils15
Silent mutations make noise15
Author Correction: Learning to distinguish progressive and non-progressive ductal carcinoma in situ13
Deep tissue imaging of cancer in the infrared13
Key role for microbiota in gut–bone crosstalk13
Stabilizing the mood of tumours13
Stemness in solid malignancies: coping with immune attack12
Advances in translational research of the rare cancer type adrenocortical carcinoma12
Decoding the basis of histological variation in human cancer12
Disconnecting multicellular networks in brain tumours12
Therapeutic resistance to anti-oestrogen therapy in breast cancer12
Multiomics-guided cellular immunotherapies12
Enhanced transposable elements11
Glioblastomas remodel neural circuits11
Air pollution promotes tumorigenesis through pre-existing oncogenic mutations11
Exploiting senescence for the treatment of cancer11
Mapping out mitochondria10
Black voices in cancer research and oncology9
Big data in basic and translational cancer research9
Too much of a good thing9
Limiting bias in AI models for improved and equitable cancer care9
Genomic and fragmentomic landscapes of cell-free DNA for early cancer detection8
Cancer organoids 2.0: modelling the complexity of the tumour immune microenvironment8
Androgen receptor activation for breast cancer therapy8
Targeting sex steroid biosynthesis for breast and prostate cancer therapy8
Pathogenesis of cancers derived from thyroid follicular cells7
Addressing the gaps in cancer screening for LGBTQ+ individuals7
Fungi in cancer6
Aristolochic acid-associated cancers: a public health risk in need of global action6
Overcoming heterogeneity with 3D whole-tumour sampling6
Nucleotide metabolism: a pan-cancer metabolic dependency6
Hubs of transcriptional activity5
Conventional chemotherapy: millions of cures, unresolved therapeutic index5
Proximity labelling to study chromatin interactomes5
Intercepting gastric cancer5
Feeding latent brain metastasis5
Breast milk for breast cancer detection5
Tumour avatars to model patients’ responses to immunotherapy5
Tracing the evolutionary history of breast cancer4
scAtlasVAE: a deep learning framework for generating a human CD8+ T cell atlas4
Understanding tumour endothelial cell heterogeneity and function from single-cell omics4
Epigenetic memory4
VIBRANT: mapping cell phenotypes using vibrational spectroscopy4
Small speckles, big impact4
Defining and using immune archetypes to classify and treat cancer4
Obesity as a promoter in BRCA mutation carriers4
The fibroinflammatory response in cancer4
Towards cancer equity via patient outreach4
Polyamines in cancer: integrating organismal metabolism and antitumour immunity4
Metabolic mechanisms of medulloblastoma metastasis4
A machine learning toolkit for subtyping cancer in existing and new datasets3
Targeting the DNA damage response in immuno-oncology: developments and opportunities3
The dynamic role of platelets in cancer progression and their therapeutic implications3
Taking the path of most resistance3
Enhancing cellular immunotherapies in cancer by engineering selective therapeutic resistance3
Fighting rare cancers: lessons from fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma3
Lymphatic vessels in the age of cancer immunotherapy3
Protection against tumour formation3
Multiplex protein imaging in tumour biology3
Bringing community to our pages3
Studying extrachromosomal DNA with the ecTag method3
Exploiting temporal aspects of cancer immunotherapy3
Metabolic networks in mutant KRAS-driven tumours: tissue specificities and the microenvironment3
Hallmarks of sex bias in immuno-oncology: mechanisms and therapeutic implications3
Sex affects cancer genomes3
Pressing defence2
Shared immunosuppressive mechanism between pregnancy and cancer2
How protons pave the way to aggressive cancers2
Naughty neutrophils2
Taking a detour2
Epigenetic lesions drive gliomagenesis2
Harnessing multimodal data integration to advance precision oncology2
Lactate gives a sour taste2
Smokeless tobacco and cigarette smoking: chemical mechanisms and cancer prevention2
Expanding oesophageal cancer research and care in eastern Africa2
Preprints as tools to advance careers2
NET-working under stress2
The BMP pathway could curb cachexia2
Non-coding driver mutations in human cancer2
In Polϴ position2
Cancer’s sensory experience2
Hidden epithelial subtypes refine colorectal cancer classification2
Ageing lipids map melanoma’s journey2
Presenting fibroblasts2
Oncologists must act to manage cancer detected through prenatal screening2
Managing cancer following the World Trade Center disaster2
Antidepressants revive T cells2
Allies in the epidermis2
Targeting the tumour’s little helpers2
Mastering the use of cellular barcoding to explore cancer heterogeneity2
Targeting aberrant splicing2
Stromal cells drive tumorigenesis in BRCA1 mutation carriers2
PDX models for functional precision oncology and discovery science2
Phosphoinositide kinases in cancer: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities2
Rusting away with age2
Liquid biopsies for Hodgkin lymphoma2
Author Correction: The importance of 3D fibre architecture in cancer and implications for biomaterial model design2
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