Nature Cancer

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Cancer is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Enhancing childhood cancer targetability720
Shooting for multiplexed pathology with Orion558
PARP11 interfer(on)es with CAR T cell efficacy516
A macrophage-activated abscopal effect420
An oncolytic circular RNA therapy385
Single-cell transcriptomic landscape deciphers olfactory neuroblastoma subtypes and intra-tumoral heterogeneity337
Considering molecular alterations as pan-cancer tissue-agnostic targets329
Author Correction: Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction314
Author Correction: Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling295
Author Correction: IL-17A-secreting γδ T cells promote resistance to CDK4/CDK6 inhibitors in HR+HER2− breast cancer via CX3CR1+ macrophages289
Author Correction: RIOK1 phase separation restricts PTEN translation via stress granules activating tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma255
Gut decisions in CAR T cell therapy217
Breast cancer cells survive chemotherapy by activating targetable immune-modulatory programs characterized by PD-L1 or CD80200
Evaluating progesterone receptor agonist megestrol plus letrozole for women with early-stage estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer: the window-of-opportunity, randomized, phase 2b, PIONEER trial190
MALAT1 protects dormant tumor cells from immune elimination186
Breaking frontiers with multidisciplinary cancer research163
A single-cell map of dynamic chromatin landscapes of immune cells in renal cell carcinoma155
Repeated peripheral infusions of anti-EGFRvIII CAR T cells in combination with pembrolizumab show no efficacy in glioblastoma: a phase 1 trial152
The proteasome regulator PSME4 modulates proteasome activity and antigen diversity to abrogate antitumor immunity in NSCLC150
ZFP281 drives a mesenchymal-like dormancy program in early disseminated breast cancer cells that prevents metastatic outgrowth in the lung139
A low-coverage liquid biopsy for lung cancer138
Landscape of prostate-specific membrane antigen heterogeneity and regulation in AR-positive and AR-negative metastatic prostate cancer137
Evolutionary trajectories of IDH-mutant astrocytoma identify molecular grading markers related to cell cycling133
Different niches for stem cells carrying the same oncogenic driver affect pathogenesis and therapy response in myeloproliferative neoplasms131
Tumor-localized CD40 agonism with MP0317, a FAP x CD40 DARPin, reprograms the tumor microenvironment in patients with advanced solid tumors: an open-label, nonrandomized, dose-escalation phase 1 study127
The cGAS–STING pathway and cancer125
Expanding the options for KRAS inhibition124
Reply to: Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor123
Palmitate oxidation drives a pro-metastatic post-translational modification123
A molecular glue halts RAS–MAPK signaling118
The importance of being generous117
Bone marrow progenitor-like cells against leukemia cure116
Stress granules shape metabolic reprogramming and drug resistance115
Shaping the microenvironment in peritoneal metastases114
Impact of context-dependent autophagy states on tumor progression109
Targeting PRMT9-mediated arginine methylation suppresses cancer stem cell maintenance and elicits cGAS-mediated anticancer immunity109
crossNN is an explainable framework for cross-platform DNA methylation-based classification of tumors109
Adoptively transferred tumor-specific IL-9-producing cytotoxic CD8+ T cells activate host CD4+ T cells to control tumors with antigen loss109
A targetable type III immune response with increase of IL-17A expressing CD4+ T cells is associated with immunotherapy-induced toxicity in melanoma108
Gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel with or without the VDR agonist paricalcitol for metastatic pancreatic cancer: a randomized, multiarm, run-in phase trial107
Advancing therapeutics in small-cell lung cancer107
Determinants of resistance and response to melanoma therapy107
Innate immunity drives epithelial cell plasticity during prostate tumor formation105
Sarcoma ecotypes determine immunotherapy benefit105
ALK peptide vaccination restores the immunogenicity of ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer101
Antibody avidity meets multiple myeloma101
Thriving in diverse ecosystems100
Author Correction: Interleukin 17 signaling supports clinical benefit of dual CTLA-4 and PD-1 checkpoint inhibition in melanoma98
Evolving landscape of nasopharyngeal carcinoma therapy97
Cancer-derived mitochondria fuel fibroblasts to become pro-tumorigenic93
Inflammation meets translation in AML92
Key insights from ESMO Congress 202592
SCRN1 confers hepatocellular carcinoma resistance to ferroptosis by stabilizing GPX4 via STK38-mediated phosphorylation89
Sex-specific gut microbiota and neutrophil senescence in bladder cancer89
A comeback for checkpoint inhibition in multiple myeloma88
Discovery of potent and selective HER2 inhibitors with efficacy against HER2 exon 20 insertion-driven tumors, which preserve wild-type EGFR signaling87
Direct and selective pharmacological disruption of the YAP–TEAD interface by IAG933 inhibits Hippo-dependent and RAS–MAPK-altered cancers85
INPP5A phosphatase is a synthetic lethal target in GNAQ and GNA11-mutant melanomas84
Safety and activity of RO7300490, a bispecific CD40 agonist targeted to fibroblast activation protein, in patients with advanced solid tumors: a single-arm, multicenter, first-in-human, phase 1 trial84
A tumor-derived metabolite primes the leptomeningeal pre-metastatic niche83
Proteogenomic landscape of human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in an Asian population reveals tumor cell-enriched and immune-rich subtypes83
Cycling back to folate metabolism in cancer82
A multiomic atlas identifies a treatment-resistant, bone marrow progenitor-like cell population in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia82
Clinical implementation of artificial-intelligence-assisted detection of breast cancer metastases in sentinel lymph nodes: the CONFIDENT-B single-center, non-randomized clinical trial81
Circadian regulation of cancer stem cells and the tumor microenvironment during metastasis81
Loss of the receptors ER, PR and HER2 promotes USP15-dependent stabilization of PARP1 in triple-negative breast cancer79
Regulatory T cells play a crucial part in radio-immunotherapy resistance of brain tumors79
Integrative single-cell analysis of human colorectal cancer reveals patient stratification with distinct immune evasion mechanisms79
MCL1 inhibitor BRD-810 kills cancer cells while minimizing risk of cardiotoxicity79
Radioligand cancer therapy comes to the fore79
Immunotargeting of a recurrent AML-specific neoantigen78
Multimodal data integration improves immunotherapy response prediction78
First-in-class ultralong-target-residence-time p38α inhibitors as a mitosis-targeted therapy for colorectal cancer78
Dual inhibition of EGFR and PI3K with a single drug78
Building a translational cancer dependency map for The Cancer Genome Atlas77
Multiregion sampling of de novo metastatic prostate cancer reveals complex polyclonality and augments clinical genotyping77
CHD1 status drives divergent metabolic pathways in SPOP-mutant prostate cancer77
A phase II study of talazoparib monotherapy in patients with wild-type BRCA1 and BRCA2 with a mutation in other homologous recombination genes76
Efficacy of pembrolizumab and vorinostat combination in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinomas: a phase 2 basket trial74
Author Correction: Ectopic JAK–STAT activation enables the transition to a stem-like and multilineage state conferring AR-targeted therapy resistance74
Immunosuppressive dura-derived macrophages in leptomeningeal metastasis74
PD-1 instructs a tumor-suppressive metabolic program that restricts glycolysis and restrains AP-1 activity in T cell lymphoma73
How AI agents will change cancer research and oncology73
Concurrent inhibition of tumor growth and metastasis by a lipidated nanophotosensitizer tracing and disabling tumor extracellular vesicles72
Differential chromatin accessibility and transcriptional dynamics define breast cancer subtypes and their lineages72
Selective targeting of malignant T cells71
AKTing on XPO1 inhibition in AML70
Highlights from the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting70
Bispecific chimeric T cell receptors tackle tumor heterogeneity68
Protein-level mutant p53 reporters identify druggable rare precancerous clones in noncancerous tissues67
The dopamine transporter antagonist vanoxerine inhibits G9a and suppresses cancer stem cell functions in colon tumors66
Regional delivery of hypoxia-responsive CAR T cells improves efficacy for solid tumors64
Single-cell analysis and functional characterization uncover the stem cell hierarchies and developmental origins of rhabdomyosarcoma63
Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling63
BRD-810 is a highly selective MCL1 inhibitor with optimized in vivo clearance and robust efficacy in solid and hematological tumor models63
Threonine fuels glioblastoma through YRDC-mediated codon-biased translational reprogramming63
A high-MAPK, low-WNT cell state drives metastatic dissemination in colorectal cancer62
The pro-oncogenic noncanonical activity of a RAS•GTP:RanGAP1 complex facilitates nuclear protein export61
Single-cell analyses implicate ascites in remodeling the ecosystems of primary and metastatic tumors in ovarian cancer60
Single-cell meta-analyses reveal responses of tumor-reactive CXCL13+ T cells to immune-checkpoint blockade60
The tumor microenvironment’s role in the response to immune checkpoint blockade60
Advances in antibody-based therapy in oncology60
Anything to declare?59
An antisense RNA promotes breast cancer metastasis via upregulation of NQO157
Epigenetic plasticity in PDAC57
An unexpected career in cancer metabolism56
Author Correction: Acquired resistance to a GPRC5D-directed T-cell engager in multiple myeloma is mediated by genetic or epigenetic target inactivation56
Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer subtypes show differential macrophage functions56
Author Correction: Anti-CTLA-4 antibodies drive myeloid activation and reprogram the tumor microenvironment through FcγR engagement and type I interferon signaling56
Metabolic symbiosis in pancreatic cancer56
In vivo macrophage engineering for renal cancer therapy55
Innate immunity and the NF-κB pathway control prostate stem cell plasticity, reprogramming and tumor initiation55
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy marks a new era in oncology55
Author Correction: Autotaxin–lysolipid signaling suppresses a CCL11–eosinophil axis to promote pancreatic cancer progression55
Myeloma evades T cell-engaging therapies54
Sarcoma microenvironment cell states and ecosystems are associated with prognosis and predict response to immunotherapy53
Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor53
M-PACT leverages cell-free DNA methylomes to achieve robust classification of pediatric brain tumors53
P2RY2-AKT activation is a therapeutically actionable consequence of XPO1 inhibition in acute myeloid leukemia53
Tumor evolution metrics predict recurrence beyond 10 years in locally advanced prostate cancer52
p53 at the crossroads of tumor immunity51
A single-cell atlas of glioblastoma evolution under therapy reveals cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets51
Clonal origin of KMT2A wild-type lineage-switch leukemia following CAR-T cell and blinatumomab therapy51
Dual modulation of cytotoxic and checkpoint receptors tunes the efficacy of adoptive Delta One T cell therapy against colorectal cancer50
Clinical and translational attributes of immune-related adverse events50
Author Correction: An inflammatory state remodels the immune microenvironment and improves risk stratification in acute myeloid leukemia50
Targeting ADAR1 with a small molecule for the treatment of prostate cancer50
Mitochondrial DNA mutation enhances sensitivity to immunotherapy in melanoma49
Glutaminase inhibition in combination with azacytidine in myelodysplastic syndromes: a phase 1b/2 clinical trial and correlative analyses48
Tumor-intrinsic sensitivity to the pro-apoptotic effects of IFN-γ is a major determinant of CD4+ CAR T-cell antitumor activity48
Tumor-associated macrophages restrict CD8+ T cell function through collagen deposition and metabolic reprogramming of the breast cancer microenvironment48
Predictive value of early PSMA upregulation for the response to enzalutamide ± 177Lu-PSMA-617 in poor-risk, metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer: substudy of the randomized, phase 2 ENZA-p47
A randomized, non-comparative phase 2 study of neoadjuvant immune-checkpoint blockade in retroperitoneal dedifferentiated liposarcoma and extremity/truncal undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma47
TIGIT and PD-L1 co-blockade promotes clonal expansion of multipotent, non-exhausted antitumor T cells by facilitating co-stimulation45
Multiomics in primary and metastatic breast tumors from the AURORA US network finds microenvironment and epigenetic drivers of metastasis45
CD103+ regulatory T cells underlie resistance to radio-immunotherapy and impair CD8+ T cell activation in glioblastoma45
Suvemcitug plus chemotherapy in women with platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer: the SCORES randomized, double-blinded, phase 3 trial44
Understanding the biology of lung cancer brain metastases44
CD8+ T cell killing of MHC class I–deficient tumors44
Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction44
A reversible SRC-relayed COX2 inflammatory program drives resistance to BRAF and EGFR inhibition in BRAFV600E colorectal tumors43
UnitedMet harnesses RNA–metabolite covariation to impute metabolite levels in clinical samples43
Masking T cell engagers mitigates on-target off-tumor activity43
Author Correction: Loss of MAT2A compromises methionine metabolism and represents a vulnerability in H3K27M mutant glioma by modulating the epigenome43
CAR T cell therapy: looking back and looking forward42
Overcoming extracellular vesicle-mediated fratricide improves CAR T cell treatment against solid tumors42
PD-L2 expression in senescent cancer cells limits tumor clearance after chemotherapy42
Unique structural configuration of EV-DNA primes Kupffer cell-mediated antitumor immunity to prevent metastatic progression41
FLASH radiation reprograms lipid metabolism and macrophage immunity and sensitizes medulloblastoma to CAR-T cell therapy41
Radiopharma pipeline builds ahead of key data40
Insight from the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 202540
The meaning of impact40
Near-infrared optogenetic engineering of bacteria for cancer therapy40
Communicating with respect40
Cellular neighborhoods in cancer39
Targeted inhibition of FBXL2 confers susceptibility of HER2-negative breast cancer to trastuzumab deruxtecan39
CD4+ CAR T cells — more than helpers39
Leveraging the potential for deintensification in cancer care39
SWIFT-seq enables comprehensive single-cell transcriptomic profiling of circulating tumor cells in multiple myeloma and its precursors38
EZH2 inhibition remodels the inflammatory senescence-associated secretory phenotype to potentiate pancreatic cancer immune surveillance38
Glucagon-like peptide-1 medicines and cancer38
Tucatinib–trastuzumab–capecitabine for treatment of leptomeningeal metastasis in women with HER2+ breast cancer: TBCRC049 phase 2 study results37
Global loss of promoter–enhancer connectivity and rebalancing of gene expression during early colorectal cancer carcinogenesis37
Nivolumab plus chemoradiotherapy followed by nivolumab with or without ipilimumab for untreated locally advanced stage III NSCLC: a randomized phase 3 trial37
Leveraging translational insights toward precision medicine approaches for brain metastases37
Leptomeningeal metastatic cancer cells induce a permissive choroid plexus vasculature through extracellular-vesicle-derived 5-HIAA signaling37
Genomic and immune signatures predict clinical outcome in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma treated with immunotherapy regimens37
Artificial intelligence for prostate cancer diagnostics37
Spatially resolved transcriptomics and graph-based deep learning improve accuracy of routine CNS tumor diagnostics36
Commensal metabolite boosts chemotherapy36
Efficacy and tolerability of neoadjuvant therapy with Talimogene laherparepvec in cutaneous basal cell carcinoma: a phase II trial (NeoBCC trial)36
A 180 degree turn en route to crafting a scientific career that never goes stale36
Disparities, aging and childhood cancer36
Antibiotic-related dysbiosis in cancer immunotherapy: from preclinical insights to practice-changing evidence35
‘IL-2Rα-biased’ IL-2 for cancer immunotherapy35
The aging lung reawakens dormant tumor cells35
Author Correction: Cytokine release syndrome-like serum responses after COVID-19 vaccination are frequent and clinically inapparent under cancer immunotherapy34
CDK10 inhibits innate sensing to constrain antitumor immunity34
Harnessing foundation models for digital pathology without re-training33
Fibrotic tumors tune metabolism for immune evasion33
Author Correction: Safety and feasibility of 4-1BB co-stimulated CD19-specific CAR-NK cell therapy in refractory/relapsed large B cell lymphoma: a phase 1 trial33
Context-dependent tumor-suppressive BMP signaling in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma regulates stemness through epigenetic regulation of CXXC533
Targeting HIF-1 to treat AML33
Cytidine deaminases APOBEC3C and APOBEC3D promote DNA replication stress resistance in pancreatic cancer cells33
The landscape of T cell antigens for cancer immunotherapy31
Targeting the histone reader ZMYND8 inhibits antiandrogen-induced neuroendocrine tumor transdifferentiation of prostate cancer31
The rapidly evolving paradigm of neoadjuvant immunotherapy across cancer types31
Integrative analysis of risk factors for immune-related adverse events of checkpoint blockade therapy in cancer31
Clinical outcomes with perioperative nivolumab by nodal status in patients with stage III resectable NSCLC: phase 3 CheckMate 77T exploratory analysis31
CAR T cell therapy for multiple myeloma30
Not a generative AI–generated Editorial30
Network-based assessment of HDAC6 activity predicts preclinical and clinical responses to the HDAC6 inhibitor ricolinostat in breast cancer30
The growing threat of cyberwarfare in cancer healthcare30
Tumor-specific cholinergic CD4+ T lymphocytes guide immunosurveillance of hepatocellular carcinoma30
ISB 2001 trispecific T cell engager shows strong tumor cytotoxicity and overcomes immune escape mechanisms of multiple myeloma cells30
Bicarbonate transport as a vulnerability in pancreatic cancer30
LncRNA Malat1 suppresses pyroptosis and T cell-mediated killing of incipient metastatic cells29
The two sides of the γδ T cell coin29
Remodeling cyclophilin A to target KRAS29
Checking immunotoxicity risks of checkpoint blockade29
Checkpoint blockade regulates T cell fate by supporting co-stimulation29
Author Correction: Retargeted oncolytic viruses engineered to remodel the tumor microenvironment for glioblastoma immunotherapy29
T cells lead the charge against solid tumors29
Phenotypic diversity of T cells in human primary and metastatic brain tumors revealed by multiomic interrogation28
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy enriches for drug-tolerant persisters in PDAC28
Imetelstat-mediated alterations in fatty acid metabolism to induce ferroptosis as a therapeutic strategy for acute myeloid leukemia28
Radiotherapy in combination with CD47 blockade elicits a macrophage-mediated abscopal effect28
Safety and feasibility of 4-1BB co-stimulated CD19-specific CAR-NK cell therapy in refractory/relapsed large B cell lymphoma: a phase 1 trial28
Exploiting HLA-DR mismatches for CAR therapy in acute myeloid leukemia27
An in vitro-transcribed circular RNA targets the mitochondrial inner membrane cardiolipin to ablate EIF4G2+/PTBP1+ pan-adenocarcinoma27
The craft (and art) of scientific writing27
Mini colons to study cancer ex vivo27
The editors’ point of view27
A designer peptide against the EAG2–Kvβ2 potassium channel targets the interaction of cancer cells and neurons to treat glioblastoma26
Neutrophils determine immunotherapy success26
Decoding TNBC architecture26
SIGLEC9 tips the myeloid balance in glioblastoma26
Understanding inequities in precision oncology diagnostics26
Characterization of cis-regulatory elements and functional variants in colorectal cancer using epigenomics and CRISPRi screenings26
European cancer research requires renewed urgency26
Blocking methionine catabolism induces senescence and confers vulnerability to GSK3 inhibition in liver cancer26
Golgi pH buffers ferroptosis sensitivity26
A roadmap of therapeutic strategies for patients with multiple myeloma26
A T cell receptor targeting a recurrent driver mutation in FLT3 mediates elimination of primary human acute myeloid leukemia in vivo26
Hallmarks of artificial intelligence contributions to precision oncology25
Inferring early genetic progression in cancers with unobtainable premalignant disease25
PD-1 defines a distinct, functional, tissue-adapted state in Vδ1+ T cells with implications for cancer immunotherapy25
Dual targeting of PI3Kγ and STING overcomes regulatory B cell- and myeloid cell-driven immune suppression in pancreatic cancer25
Combination of pembrolizumab and radiotherapy induces systemic antitumor immune responses in immunologically cold non-small cell lung cancer25
Targeting TAK1 in microglia to treat CAR T cell neurotoxicity24
Publisher Correction: TIGIT and PD-L1 co-blockade promotes clonal expansion of multipotent, non-exhausted antitumor T cells by facilitating co-stimulation24
SOS1 inhibitor combinations overcome KRAS inhibitor resistance24
Mind the GAP(43) for mitochondria transfer to glioblastomas23
Glutamine analogs for pancreatic cancer therapy23
Starfish infers signatures of complex genomic rearrangements across human cancers23
A Gremlin 1-expressing splenic niche cell population restrains chronic myeloid leukemia by antagonizing the BMP pathway23
Selective deficiency of mitochondrial respiratory complex I subunits Ndufs4/6 causes tumor immunogenicity23
Charting the landscape of drug response and resistance with multiplexed ‘mosaic’ tumor models22
Decoding tumor heterogeneity and plasticity21
CRTAM inhibition mitigates toxicity of immune checkpoint inhibitors without antitumor efficacy trade-off21
Somatic evolution of marine transmissible leukemias in the common cockle, Cerastoderma edule21
CD8+ T cells maintain killing of MHC-I-negative tumor cells through the NKG2D–NKG2DL axis20
Inhibition of ADAM9 promotes the selective degradation of KRAS and sensitizes pancreatic cancers to chemotherapy20
Combined ctDNA and serum PSA for dynamic monitoring of metastatic prostate cancer starting first-line treatment: a prospective national cohort study20
LORIS robustly predicts patient outcomes with immune checkpoint blockade therapy using common clinical, pathologic and genomic features20
Specific targeting of glioblastoma with an oncolytic virus expressing a cetuximab-CCL5 fusion protein via innate and adaptive immunity20
Mesenchymal and adrenergic cell lineage states in neuroblastoma possess distinct immunogenic phenotypes20
Multipotent lineage potential in B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is associated with distinct cellular origins and clinical features20
Integrated multiomic profiling of breast cancer in the Chinese population reveals patient stratification and therapeutic vulnerabilities20
The 2022 generation19
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