Cancer Communications

Papers
(The median citation count of Cancer Communications is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Identification of telomere maintenance gene variations related to lung adenocarcinoma risk by genome‐wide association and whole genome sequencing analyses575
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Loss of SMARCB1 evokes targetable epigenetic vulnerabilities in epithelioid sarcoma326
Ex vivo STAT3 phosphorylation in circulating immune cells: a novel biomarker for early cancer diagnosis and response to anti‐PD‐1 therapy263
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Tumor derived cell‐free nucleic acid upregulates programmed death‐ligand 1 expression in neutrophil via intracellular Toll‐like receptor signaling153
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A novel strategy for treating oncogene‐mutated tumors by targeting tumor microenvironment and synergistically enhancing anti‐PD‐1 immunotherapy151
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The efficacy and possible mechanisms of immune checkpoint inhibitors in treating non‐small cell lung cancer patients with epidermal growth factor receptor mutation113
Beyond success: unveiling the hidden potential of radiotherapy and immunotherapy in solid tumors103
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Vitamin D3 for reducing mortality from cancer and other outcomes before, during and beyond the COVID‐19 pandemic: A plea for harvesting low‐hanging fruit92
Pre‐transplantation cytoreduction does not benefit advanced myelodysplastic syndrome patients after myeloablative transplantation with grafts from family donors89
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Fascin lysine 471 acetylation cooperates with serine 39 phosphorylation to inhibit actin‐bundling activity and tumor metastasis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma80
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A serum microRNA signature for enhanced selection of people for lung cancer screening78
Kindlin‐1 drives early steps of breast cancer metastasis76
Interleukin‐10 gives exhausted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells a second breath76
Loss of CDKN1B induces an age‐related clonal hematopoietic disorder via Notch2 activity dysregulation73
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Age‐specific effectiveness of primary human papillomavirus screening versus cytology in a cervical cancer screening program: a nationwide cross‐sectional study59
An integrated genetic‐epigenetic analysis shed light on the mechanisms linking coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) and cancer58
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AP4 induces JNK1 and a miR‐22‐3p/FOSL1 feed‐forward loop to activate AP‐1 and promote colorectal cancer metastasis54
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Combining radiation and the ATR inhibitor berzosertib activates STING signaling and enhances immunotherapy via inhibiting SHP1 function in colorectal cancer53
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Updated overall survival and circulating tumor DNA analysis of ensartinib for crizotinib‐refractory ALK‐positive NSCLC from a phase II study50
Revealing the secret behind Epstein‐Barr virus‐specific tumor immune contexture49
Disclosing the true impact of screening endoscopy in colorectal cancer prevention47
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Cell models with inducible oncogenic translocations allow to evaluate the potential of drugs to favor secondary translocations44
Sexual dimorphism in the antitumor immune responses elicited by the combination of fasting and chemotherapy44
Improving antitumor immunity using antiangiogenic agents: Mechanistic insights, current progress, and clinical challenges42
Integrated circulating tumor DNA and T cell repertoire predict radiotherapeutic response and outcome in non‐small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastasis42
Enhancing sensitivity of triple‐negative breast cancer to DNA‐damaging therapy through chemical inhibition of the m6A methyltransferase METTL341
A single measurement of fecal hemoglobin concentration outperforms polygenic risk score in colorectal cancer risk assessment40
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Survival impact of early MRI progression after stereotactic radiotherapy for brain metastases36
Radiotherapy‐resistant prostate cancer cells escape immune checkpoint blockade through the senescence‐related ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3‐related protein35
Nine‐fold variation of risk of advanced colorectal neoplasms according to smoking and polygenic risk score: Results from a cross‐sectional study in a large screening colonoscopy cohort34
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Targeting the LMP1‐ALIX axis in EBV+ nasopharyngeal carcinoma inhibits immunosuppressive small extracellular vesicle secretion and boosts anti‐tumor immunity32
Current status and perspectives of esophageal cancer: a comprehensive review31
Unveiling quality of clinical trial in China: from concern to confirmation31
The scaffold protein menin is essential for activating the MYC locus and MYC‐mediated androgen receptor transcription in androgen receptor‐dependent prostate cancer cells28
Worldwide trends in esophageal cancer survival, by sub‐site, morphology, and sex: an analysis of 696,974 adults diagnosed in 60 countries during 2000‐2014 (CONCORD‐3)28
Leptin‐mediated suppression of lipoprotein lipase cleavage enhances lipid uptake and facilitates lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer27
Combined local therapy and CAR‐GPC3 T‐cell therapy in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: a proof‐of‐concept treatment strategy27
Defining and tracing subtypes of patient‐derived xenograft models in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma27
Dietary intake of advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) and cancer risk across more than 20 anatomical sites: A multinational cohort study26
Spatial relationship of tertiary lymphoid structures and tumor‐associated neutrophils in bladder cancer and prognostic potential for anti‐PD‐L1 immunotherapy26
Metabolic regulation in the immune response to cancer26
Two distinct stem cell‐like subtypes of hepatocellular carcinoma with clinical significance and their therapeutic potentials26
Long‐term survival outcomes and immune checkpoint inhibitor retreatment in patients with advanced cervical cancer treated with camrelizumab plus apatinib in the phase II CLAP study26
PTPRO represses colorectal cancer tumorigenesis and progression by reprogramming fatty acid metabolism25
Childhood overweight and risk of obesity‐related adult cancer in men25
Gene amplification‐driven RNA methyltransferase KIAA1429 promotes tumorigenesis by regulating BTG2 via m6A‐YTHDF2‐dependent in lung adenocarcinoma25
Targeting SRSF10 might inhibit M2 macrophage polarization and potentiate anti‐PD‐1 therapy in hepatocellular carcinoma25
Immune mediated support of metastasis: Implication for bone invasion25
Lipid metabolism in pancreatic cancer: emerging roles and potential targets24
Paclitaxel liposome for injection (Lipusu) plus cisplatin versus gemcitabine plus cisplatin in the first‐line treatment of locally advanced or metastatic lung squamous cell carcinoma: A multicenter, r23
Crosstalk between IL‐15Rα+tumor‐associated macrophages and breast cancer cells reduces CD8+T cell recruitment23
The Chinese Society of Clinical Oncology (CSCO): Clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer, 2024 update22
Advanced precision modeling reveals divergent responses of hepatocellular carcinoma to combinatorial immunotherapy22
Criteria and regulatory considerations for the conditional approval of innovative antitumor drugs in China: from the perspective of clinical reviewers22
Survival trends of patients with non‐metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma in the US and European countries: the impact of decreasing resection rates22
Impact of prior chemotherapy with two different fluoropyrimidines on the efficacy of capecitabine plus irinotecan or FOLFIRI with or without bevacizumab in metastatic colorectal cancer: a post hoc ana20
Detection of pancreatic cancer by indocyanine green‐assisted fluorescence imaging in the first and second near‐infrared windows20
Activation of Piezo1 contributes to matrix stiffness‐induced angiogenesis in hepatocellular carcinoma19
Signaling pathways in cancer‐associated fibroblasts: recent advances and future perspectives19
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Single‐cell transcriptomics and epigenomics point to CD58‐CD2 interaction in controlling primary melanoma growth and immunity18
Increased mitochondrial fission drives the reprogramming of fatty acid metabolism in hepatocellular carcinoma cells through suppression of Sirtuin 118
SYNCRIP promotes cell cycle progression and lung tumorigenesis by modulating AURKB translation18
The regulatory roles and clinical significance of glycolysis in tumor18
Trends in cancer mortality in China from 2004 to 2018: A nationwide longitudinal study18
Converting “cold” to “hot”: epigenetics strategies to improve immune therapy effect by regulating tumor‐associated immune suppressive cells18
Targeting ferroptosis resistance resensitizes metastatic HR+HER2 breast cancer cells to palbociclib‐hormone therapy18
Cancer‐associated fibroblast‐derived secreted phosphoprotein 1 contributes to resistance of hepatocellular carcinoma to sorafenib and lenvatinib18
Residual circulating tumor DNA after adjuvant chemotherapy effectively predicts recurrence of stage II‐III gastric cancer17
Bioequivalence of alternative pembrolizumab dosing regimens: current practice and future perspectives17
Anti‐tumor drug supervision in China from 2010 to 2024: the evolution and prospect of drug review standards17
Circulating tumor cells share RNA modules with early embryo trophectoderm and with metastatic cancer17
Single‐cell transcriptomics provides insights into the origin and immune microenvironment of cervical precancerous lesions16
Outcomes and toxicities of immune checkpoint inhibitors in colorectal cancer: a real‐world retrospective analysis16
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Validation of different personalized risk models of chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting: results of a randomized, double‐blind, phase III trial of fosaprepitant for cancer patients treated with h15
Real‐world outcomes of niraparib treatment in patients with ovarian cancer: a multicenter non‐interventional study in China15
Social‐epigenetic mediators for racial disparities in pulmonary impairment among childhood cancer survivors15
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Non‐recovery of renal function was correlated with increased mortality in the cancer cohort with septic shock14
The repertoire of germline variants in patients with early‐onset rectal cancer14
HSF1 facilitates the multistep process of lymphatic metastasis in bladder cancer via a novel PRMT5‐WDR5‐dependent transcriptional program14
Reciprocal tumor‐platelet interaction through the EPHB1‐EFNB1 axis in the liver metastatic niche promotes metastatic tumor outgrowth in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma13
Research trends of cancer metabolism: analysis from a Chinese perspective13
Retreatment in locally recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Current status and perspectives13
Multifunctional inorganic nanomaterials for cancer photoimmunotherapy13
The interplay between natural killer cells and pancreatic stellate cells in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma13
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Dietary long‐chain fatty acid metabolism boosts antitumor immune response12
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma treatment paradigm after HK0501 – a potential way forward12
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Establishment of an orthotopic perirenal space xenograft mouse model of retroperitoneal sarcoma12
Metabolic landscape of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma informs a novel kynurenine/Siglec‐15 axis in immune escape12
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Perivascular localized cells commit erythropoiesis in PDGF‐B‐expressing solid tumors11
Emerging agents that target signaling pathways to eradicate colorectal cancer stem cells11
Tumor‐derived insulin‐like growth factor‐binding protein‐1 contributes to resistance of hepatocellular carcinoma to tyrosine kinase inhibitors11
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Single‐cell atlas reveals a distinct immune profile fostered by T cell‐B cell crosstalk in triple negative breast cancer11
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Impact of pre‐existing cardiometabolic diseases on metastatic cancer stage at diagnosis: a prospective multinational cohort study11
Efficacy and safety of KN026 and docetaxel for HER2‐positive breast cancer: a phase II clinical trial10
p38γ and p38δ as biomarkers in the interplay of colon cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases10
Partial hepatectomy versus interventional treatment in patients with hepatitis B virus‐related hepatocellular carcinoma and clinically significant portal hypertension: a randomized comparative clinica10
Dynamics and cytokinic regulation of immune cell infiltration in genetically engineered mouse models of pancreatic cancer dictate the sensitivity to immunotherapy9
Parkin deficiency promotes colorectal tumorigenesis and progression through RIPK3‐dependent necroptotic inflammation9
Efficacy and safety of first‐line sintilimab plus anlotinib versus chemotherapy for metastatic non‐small cell lung cancer: a phase II, open‐label, randomized controlled trial9
A novel intronic circular RNA, circGNG7, inhibits head and neck squamous cell carcinoma progression by blocking the phosphorylation of heat shock protein 27 at Ser78 and Ser829
Depression accelerates gastric cancer invasion and metastasis by inducing a neuroendocrine phenotype via the catecholamine/β2‐AR/MACC1 axis8
Predictive power of tertiary lymphoid structure signature for neoadjuvant chemotherapy response and immunotherapy benefit in HER2‐negative breast cancer8
MFN2 suppresses clear cell renal cell carcinoma progression by modulating mitochondria‐dependent dephosphorylation of EGFR8
Combined treatment of non‐small cell lung cancer using radiotherapy and immunotherapy: challenges and updates8
Standard pancreatoduodenectomy versus extended pancreatoduodenectomy with modified retroperitoneal nerve resection in patients with pancreatic head cancer: a multicenter randomized controlled trial8
A phase Ib/II study of fruquintinib in combination with paclitaxel as the second‐line therapy for advanced gastric cancer8
N6‐methyladenosine‐modified DBT alleviates lipid accumulation and inhibits tumor progression in clear cell renal cell carcinoma through the ANXA2/YAP axis‐regulated Hippo pathway8
Detection of piRNA‐54265 in human serum: evidence and significance8
Pivotal roles of tumor‐draining lymph nodes in the abscopal effects from combined immunotherapy and radiotherapy8
A nanotherapeutic strategy to target drug‐tolerant cells and overcome EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance in lung cancer7
Proteomic identification of new diagnostic biomarkers of early‐stage cutaneous mycosis fungoides7
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Intra‐heterogeneity in transcription and chemoresistant property of leukemia‐initiating cells in murine Setd2−/− acute myeloid leukemia7
Infection complications in febrile chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)‐T recipients during the peri‐CAR‐T cell treatment period examined using metagenomic next‐generation sequencing (mNGS)7
Targeting histone deacetylase suppresses tumor growth through eliciting METTL14‐modified m6A RNA methylation in ocular melanoma7
The diagnosis, classification, and treatment of sarcoma in this era of artificial intelligence and immunotherapy7
Oral transforming growth factor‐beta receptor 1 inhibitor vactosertib promotes osteosarcoma regression by targeting tumor proliferation and enhancing anti‐tumor immunity7
Candidate therapeutic agents in a newly established triple wild‐type mucosal melanoma cell line7
Development and validation of an artificial intelligence model for predicting post‐transplant hepatocellular cancer recurrence7
MAGE‐C3 promotes cancer metastasis by inducing epithelial‐mesenchymal transition and immunosuppression in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma7
Lysosomal TMEM9‐LAMTOR4‐controlled mTOR signaling integrity is required for mammary tumorigenesis7
P300/CBP‐associated factor (PCAF)‐mediated acetylation of Fascin at lysine 471 inhibits its actin‐bundling activity and tumor metastasis in esophageal cancer7
RGS12 inhibits the progression and metastasis of multiple myeloma by driving M1 macrophage polarization and activation in the bone marrow microenvironment7
Ferroptosis in cancer and cancer immunotherapy6
Serologic status and safety of inactivated Covid‐19 vaccine for hepatocellular carcinoma patients with cirrhosis after curative liver resection6
Anticancer medicines in China: Trends in daily therapy cost and relative procurement volume and spending6
The long‐term spatiotemporal trends in lung cancer burden and its risk factors at global, regional, and national levels, 1992‐2021: The Global Burden of Disease Study 20216
Real‐world data on ALK rearrangement test in Chinese advanced non‐small cell lung cancer (RATICAL): a nationwide multicenter retrospective study6
The Fibrillin‐1/VEGFR2/STAT2 signaling axis promotes chemoresistance via modulating glycolysis and angiogenesis in ovarian cancer organoids and cells6
Phosphatidylserine released from apoptotic cells in tumor induces M2‐like macrophage polarization through the PSR‐STAT3‐JMJD3 axis6
Phospholipase iPLA2β acts as a guardian against ferroptosis6
Matrisomal genes in squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck influence tumor cell motility and response to cetuximab treatment6
The SARS‐CoV‐2 spike protein induces lung cancer migration and invasion in a TLR2‐dependent manner6
Safety and immunogenicity of a third dose of mRNA‐1273 vaccine among cancer patients6
Targeting N4‐acetylcytidine suppresses hepatocellular carcinoma progression by repressing eEF2‐mediated HMGB2 mRNA translation6
Immunologic tumor microenvironment modulators for turning cold tumors hot6
Evolution of tumor microenvironment in colorectal liver metastases under treatment stress6
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy for non–small cell lung cancer: State of the art6
Neoadjuvant HER2 inhibition induces ESR1 DNA methylation alterations resulting in clinically relevant ER expression changes in breast cancers6
Crosstalk between metabolic reprogramming and epigenetics in cancer: updates on mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities6
Epi‐immunotherapy for cancers: rationales of epi‐drugs in combination with immunotherapy and advances in clinical trials6
Concurrent chemoradiotherapyof different radiation doses and different irradiation fields for locally advanced thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: A randomized, multicenter, phase III clinica6
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Bone marrow metastasis from advanced gastric cancer complicated with disseminated intravascular coagulation: a highly aggressive but manageable disease subtype5
N6‐methyladenosine modification of CENPF mRNA facilitates gastric cancer metastasis via regulating FAK nuclear export5
Integrative proteomics reveals the role of E3 ubiquitin ligase SYVN1 in hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis5
The role of non‐coding RNAs in drug resistance of oral squamous cell carcinoma and therapeutic potential5
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Licochalcone A suppresses Sp1 expression with potential anti‐myeloma activity5
Aberrant translation regulated by METTL1/WDR4‐mediated tRNA N7‐methylguanosine modification drives head and neck squamous cell carcinoma progression5
PDGFA‐associated protein 1 is a novel target of c‐Myc and contributes to colorectal cancer initiation and progression5
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Correction to: Overexpression of amplified in breast cancer 1 (AIB1) gene promotes lung adenocarcinoma aggressiveness in vitro and in vivo by upregulating c‐x‐c motif chemokine receptor 45
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Diagnostic value of genetic mutation analysis and mutation profiling of cell‐free DNA in intraocular fluid for vitreoretinal lymphoma5
Clinical outcomes of second‐line treatment following first‐line VEGFR‐TKI failure in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a comparison of axitinib alone and axitinib plus anti‐PD‐1 antibody5
ABTL0812 enhances antitumor effect of paclitaxel and reverts chemoresistance in triple‐negative breast cancer models5
Insulin gene enhancer protein 1 mediates glycolysis and tumorigenesis of gastric cancer through regulating glucose transporter 45
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CD146 promotes malignant progression of breast phyllodes tumor through suppressing DCBLD2 degradation and activating the AKT pathway5
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Protein tyrosine phosphatases: emerging role in cancer therapy resistance5
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Functions and clinical significance of mechanical tumor microenvironment: cancer cell sensing, mechanobiology and metastasis4
A multimodal integrative approach to model transcriptional addiction of thyroid cancer on RUNX24
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Genetic alternations and immune characteristics in patients with small cell lung cancer4
Positron emission tomography‐adapted therapy in low‐risk diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma: results of a randomized, phase III, non‐inferiority trial4
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Combination of anti‐PD‐L1 antibody with peptide MEL‐dKLA targeting M2 tumor‐associated macrophages suppresses breast cancer metastasis4
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Harnessing SARS‐CoV‐2‐specific CD8+ T cells to kill target tumor cells for cancer immunotherapy4
Targeted STAT1 therapy for LZTR1‐driven peripheral nerve sheath tumor4
Smoking, smoking cessation, and survival after cancer diagnosis in 128,423 patients across cancer types4
Transient and DNA‐free in vivo CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing for flexible modeling of endometrial carcinogenesis4
Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitor plus chemotherapy in rare tracheal tumors4
Prognostic value of single‐nucleotide polymorphisms for extranodal natural killer/T‐cell lymphoma: the identification of risk factors in the molecular era4
Limitation and challenges in using pancreatic cancer‐derived organoids as a preclinical tool4
Single whole‐genome sequencing analysis of metastatic biopsy is sufficient for investigational treatment opportunities in cancer4
Association of previously irradiated stable brain metastases with outcomes of atezolizumab‐treated non‐small cell lung cancer: A pooled analysis of individual patient data from three randomized trials4
Impact of small molecule‐mediated inhibition of ammonia detoxification on lung malignancies and liver metabolism4
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Evaluation of immune response to anti‐COVID‐19 booster in cancer patients and chronic medical cannabis users and its association with circulating Eosinophils levels4
Proteomics profiling of colorectal cancer progression identifies PLOD2 as a potential therapeutic target4
Cancer diagnosis is one quarter lower than the expected cancer incidence in the first year of COVID‐19 pandemic in Germany: A retrospective register‐based cohort study4
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Diverse effects of chemotherapeutic agents on immune cell function and implications in immunochemotherapy3
Evaluation of renal cancer progression in a mouse model of heart failure3
miR‐99a‐5p modulates doxorubicin resistance via the COX‐2/ABCG2 axis in triple‐negative breast cancer: from the discovery to in vivo studies3
Cytosolic TGM2 promotes malignant progression in gastric cancer by suppressing the TRIM21‐mediated ubiquitination/degradation of STAT1 in a GTP binding‐dependent modality3
Abrogation of nuclear entry of TERT by fructose 1,6‐bisphosphatase 1‐mediated dephosphorylation3
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NHE7 upregulation potentiates the uptake of small extracellular vesicles by enhancing maturation of macropinosomes in hepatocellular carcinoma3
Association between antipsychotic agents and risk of lung cancer: a nested case‐control study3
Transcription factor TFE3 enhances cell cycle and cancer progression by binding to the hTERT promoter3
Dysfunction of dendritic cells in tumor microenvironment and immunotherapy3
A novel histone deacetylase inhibitor exerts promising anti‐breast cancer activity via triggering AIFM1‐dependent programmed necrosis3
Programmed death ligand‐1 regulates angiogenesis and metastasis by participating in the c‐JUN/VEGFR2 signaling axis in ovarian cancer3
Involvement of long non‐coding RNAs in the progression of esophageal cancer3
The establishment of polypeptide PSMA‐targeted chimeric antigen receptor‐engineered natural killer cells for castration‐resistant prostate cancer and the induction of ferroptosis‐related cell death3
Intercellular communications and metabolic reprogramming as new predictive markers for immunotherapy responses in gastric cancer3
Mitochondrial transcription factor A plays opposite roles in the initiation and progression of colitis‐associated cancer3
Unraveling the routes to distant metastases in colorectal cancer: Tumor deposits and lymph node metastases as the gateway3
Fusobacterium is toxic for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and its presence may determine a better prognosis3
JARID2 coordinates with the NuRD complex to facilitate breast tumorigenesis through response to adipocyte‐derived leptin3
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