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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Computing brain metastasis impact1628
Digging for treasures in the tumour interactome1168
Linking pancreatic renewal and cancer initiation976
An inhospitable site604
Convergent inducers and effectors of T cell paralysis in the tumour microenvironment563
Combining spatial transcriptomics and AI to enhance brain tumour diagnosis535
INVADEseq to study the intratumoural microbiota at host single-cell resolution401
Combinatorial strategies to target RAS-driven cancers376
Oncofetal reprogramming in tumour development and progression374
Fructose takes a detour to feed cancer364
Emerging strategies to investigate the biology of early cancer339
Implementing practice-changing progress for managing cancer of unknown primary334
How medical anthropology can contribute to cancer research318
Mapping the prostate cell family tree317
Fighting cancer with fat308
Reply to ‘Heterogeneity of TP53 mutations necessitates differentiation with p53-rescue therapies’307
3D chromatin architecture as a predictor of somatic mutations in cancer genomes280
Translating premalignant biology to accelerate non-small-cell lung cancer interception265
Author Correction: Fighting rare cancers: lessons from fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma262
Connie J. Eaves (1944–2024)261
The recruitment of metastasis-associated monocytes253
Antihistamines boost immunotherapy248
Beyond genetics: driving cancer with the tumour microenvironment behind the wheel246
The role of CRAF in cancer progression: from molecular mechanisms to precision therapies225
Epithelial and stromal co-evolution and complicity in pancreatic cancer219
The evolution of cancer and ageing: a history of constraint209
Tertiary lymphoid structures as hubs of antitumour immunity200
Context-dependent functions of pattern recognition receptors in cancer196
Targeting transcription cycles in cancer194
Gut microbes produce novel genotoxic metabolites193
Under pressure188
No mutation, tumour initiation185
Impersonating neurons183
Nanoreceptors take down mutant p53183
Tumour EVPs disrupt liver function177
Dendritic cells rise and shine177
AACR 2025173
Measuring HLA disruption using MHC Hammer170
Removing barriers to address sex differences in anticancer drug toxicity164
Persistence is key158
Defining a ‘cells to society’ research framework for appendiceal tumours152
Thelpers? More like Ttroublemakers146
Moonlighting functions of glucose metabolic enzymes and metabolites in cancer144
Remodelling of the tumour microenvironment by the kallikrein-related peptidases141
Natural killer cells in antitumour adoptive cell immunotherapy137
3D bioprinted cancer models: from basic biology to drug development131
Environmental endocrine disruptors: rethinking the origins of early-onset ER+ breast cancer126
How chemokines organize the tumour microenvironment126
Un-Fair Skin: racial disparities in acral melanoma research121
Bone voyage: immune crosstalk sets sail120
B-ring sterols to the rescue118
Identifying spatial cellular structures with SPACE-GM116
In-depth organoid profiling of pancreatic cancer116
Visualizing intratumoural heterogeneity with EpicMIBI115
The path to leptomeningeal metastasis111
The immune microenvironment of colorectal cancer111
Points of entry for tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes111
Regulatory T cells in the tumour microenvironment105
Leveraging the replication stress response to optimize cancer therapy105
Linking cell mechanical memory and cancer metastasis102
Metabolic interplays between the tumour and the host shape the tumour macroenvironment100
In situ decellularization of tissues to resolve the tumour-associated matrix100
Dynamics and specificities of T cells in cancer immunotherapy100
Encoding spatial tumour dynamics with Starfysh99
Understanding and addressing race disparities in childhood cancer outcomes99
Race influences the tumour microbiome98
Deciphering the cancer genome and epigenome97
Don’t blame the messenger: lessons learned for cancer mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic95
The link between vitamin D and prostate cancer95
Polygenic scores in cancer90
Acetyl-CoA metabolism in cancer86
RNA splicing dysregulation and the hallmarks of cancer82
Cancer nanomedicine81
Taming TAMs in brain metastases81
Targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy80
Local CAR manufacturing77
Z-nucleic acids give immunotherapy a boost77
Parity modulates epithelial–immune cell communication76
Right ON target: a new RAS-GTP inhibitor74
Author Correction: Antibody-based proteomics: fast-tracking molecular diagnostics in oncology74
Prime editing GEMMs to model cancer mutations67
Androgen receptor signalling in non-prostatic malignancies: challenges and opportunities67
Chromothripsis in cancer65
Integrative medicine in oncology: redefining the standard of care62
Expanding the utility of precision oncology knowledge bases61
A trojan horse to target spliceosome mutant cells61
Tamoxifen takes the wheel59
NOTUM-mediated stem cell competition in CRC59
Targeting ferroptosis as a vulnerability in cancer58
Defining precancer: a grand challenge for the cancer community58
Tertiary lymphoid structures in anticancer immunity54
Starting a new job50
Neutrophils: a roadblock for immunotherapy49
In vivo labelling system to study cell neighbourhoods48
Revealing genomic secrets of archival FFPE samples47
Functional lineage tracing to study the clonal evolution of therapy resistance46
Judith Campisi (1948–2024)46
Quantum probes in cancer research46
New pathogen on the block43
Glycogen condensates drive tumorigenesis by trapping Hippo kinases42
Inferring cancer metabolism from gene-expression data37
The present and future of the Cancer Dependency Map36
Immune-checkpoint inhibitor-mediated myocarditis: CTLA4, PD1 and LAG3 in the heart36
Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data35
Recent advances in therapeutic cancer vaccines35
Carcinogenesis at single-cell resolution34
Patient-derived organoids unveil sarcoma vulnerabilities33
Bidirectional CART.BiTE cells bring new hope32
Global post-mortem tissue donation programmes to accelerate cancer research32
Transfer RNAs as dynamic and critical regulators of cancer progression32
A timeline of tumour-associated macrophage biology29
Developing dietary interventions as therapy for cancer29
Focusing on the complex and dynamic interplay between ageing and cancer29
Epigenomic heterogeneity as a source of tumour evolution29
Traject3d for studying 3D cellular heterogeneity28
Author Correction: Integrative medicine in oncology: redefining the standard of care27
Digitally enhanced Raman spectroscopy27
We cannot ignore the cancer risks of wildfires26
Mechanisms and treatment of cancer therapy-induced peripheral and central neurotoxicity26
Targeting cancer cell dormancy25
Fcγ receptors and immunomodulatory antibodies in cancer24
mRNA-based cancer therapeutics24
Structural variations in cancer and the 3D genome24
Harnessing the influenza virus to fight cancer23
Guardrails for the use of generalist AI in cancer care22
Immunogenic cell death in cancer: targeting necroptosis to induce antitumour immunity22
Neuro-immune cross-talk in cancer22
The role of ROS in tumour development and progression21
AACR 202420
Next-generation epidemiologic cohorts for cancer aetiology19
Frozen silicified vaccines19
Ethnically diverse cancer cell lines for drug testing18
The role of eIF4F-driven mRNA translation in regulating the tumour microenvironment17
Male melanoma comes of age17
Modelling and deciphering tumour metabolism in CRISPR screens16
Fungi in cancer: not such a ‘fun-guy’16
CAFs promote CRPC16
Advances in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma14
Decoding the functional impact of the cancer genome through protein–protein interactions13
Mechanisms driving the immunoregulatory function of cancer cells13
Silent mutations make noise13
EMT in chemoresistance13
Author Correction: Learning to distinguish progressive and non-progressive ductal carcinoma in situ12
Disconnecting multicellular networks in brain tumours12
Multiomics-guided cellular immunotherapies12
Stabilizing the mood of tumours12
Energizing leukaemia12
Same same but different11
Decoding the basis of histological variation in human cancer11
Stemness in solid malignancies: coping with immune attack10
Advances in translational research of the rare cancer type adrenocortical carcinoma10
Deep tissue imaging of cancer in the infrared10
Inflammatory neutrophils8
Therapeutic resistance to anti-oestrogen therapy in breast cancer8
Key role for microbiota in gut–bone crosstalk8
Androgen receptor activation for breast cancer therapy7
Addressing the gaps in cancer screening for LGBTQ+ individuals7
Glioblastomas remodel neural circuits7
Too much of a good thing7
Air pollution promotes tumorigenesis through pre-existing oncogenic mutations7
Exploiting senescence for the treatment of cancer7
Targeting sex steroid biosynthesis for breast and prostate cancer therapy7
Mapping out mitochondria7
Enhanced transposable elements7
Aristolochic acid-associated cancers: a public health risk in need of global action6
Pathogenesis of cancers derived from thyroid follicular cells6
Nucleotide metabolism: a pan-cancer metabolic dependency6
Black voices in cancer research and oncology6
Genomic and fragmentomic landscapes of cell-free DNA for early cancer detection6
Big data in basic and translational cancer research6
Overcoming heterogeneity with 3D whole-tumour sampling5
Hubs of transcriptional activity5
Fungi in cancer5
Modelling the ageing dependence of cancer evolutionary trajectories5
Limiting bias in AI models for improved and equitable cancer care5
Tumour avatars to model patients’ responses to immunotherapy5
Proximity labelling to study chromatin interactomes5
Feeding latent brain metastasis5
Breast milk for breast cancer detection5
Cancer organoids 2.0: modelling the complexity of the tumour immune microenvironment5
Intercepting gastric cancer5
Polyamines in cancer: integrating organismal metabolism and antitumour immunity4
Understanding tumour endothelial cell heterogeneity and function from single-cell omics4
Small speckles, big impact4
Studying extrachromosomal DNA with the ecTag method4
Defining and using immune archetypes to classify and treat cancer4
Epigenetic memory4
Tracing the evolutionary history of breast cancer4
Obesity as a promoter in BRCA mutation carriers4
The fibroinflammatory response in cancer4
Conventional chemotherapy: millions of cures, unresolved therapeutic index4
VIBRANT: mapping cell phenotypes using vibrational spectroscopy4
Lymphatic vessels in the age of cancer immunotherapy3
Fighting rare cancers: lessons from fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma3
Targeting the roots of myeloid malignancies with T cell receptors3
Protection against tumour formation3
Enhancing cellular immunotherapies in cancer by engineering selective therapeutic resistance3
Replication timings affect the frequency of chromosomal translocation3
Hallmarks of sex bias in immuno-oncology: mechanisms and therapeutic implications3
Overcoming TGFβ-mediated immune evasion in cancer2
Pressing defence2
Smokeless tobacco and cigarette smoking: chemical mechanisms and cancer prevention2
Taking a detour2
NET-working under stress2
Phosphoinositide kinases in cancer: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities2
Oncologists must act to manage cancer detected through prenatal screening2
Targeting aberrant splicing2
How protons pave the way to aggressive cancers2
Presenting fibroblasts2
The dynamic role of platelets in cancer progression and their therapeutic implications2
scAtlasVAE: a deep learning framework for generating a human CD8+ T cell atlas2
Managing cancer following the World Trade Center disaster2
Shared immunosuppressive mechanism between pregnancy and cancer2
Unravelling the genetics and epigenetics of the ageing tumour microenvironment in cancer2
Aggregating premalignancy2
Harnessing multimodal data integration to advance precision oncology2
Hidden epithelial subtypes refine colorectal cancer classification2
Preprints as tools to advance careers2
Cancer’s sensory experience2
Naughty neutrophils2
Epigenetic lesions drive gliomagenesis2
Mastering the use of cellular barcoding to explore cancer heterogeneity2
Bringing community to our pages2
Author Correction: The importance of 3D fibre architecture in cancer and implications for biomaterial model design2
Lactate gives a sour taste2
Multiplex protein imaging in tumour biology2
Heard immunity in CAR T cells2
Rusting away with age2
Nanotherapy: targeting the tumour microenvironment2
Tumour hypoxia in driving genomic instability and tumour evolution2
Liquid biopsies for Hodgkin lymphoma2
PDX models for functional precision oncology and discovery science2
Stromal cells drive tumorigenesis in BRCA1 mutation carriers2
Allies in the epidermis2
Advancing cancer research via comparative oncology2
Targeting the tumour’s little helpers2
Ageing lipids map melanoma’s journey2
Expanding oesophageal cancer research and care in eastern Africa2
Sex affects cancer genomes2
Exploiting temporal aspects of cancer immunotherapy2
A machine learning toolkit for subtyping cancer in existing and new datasets2
Identification, functional insights and therapeutic targeting of EMT tumour states2
Salmonella, the insidious contributor to gallbladder and colon cancers2
Gender and sex interactions are intrinsic components of cancer phenotypes2
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