Nature Cancer

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(The median citation count of Nature Cancer is 4. 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
Outcompeting neighbors for intestinal cancer initiation616
Gut decisions in CAR T cell therapy413
Untangling the threads of immunotherapy research393
Author Correction: IL-17A-secreting γδ T cells promote resistance to CDK4/CDK6 inhibitors in HR+HER2− breast cancer via CX3CR1+ macrophages392
Alzheimer’s drug turns macrophages against cancer334
PARP11 interfer(on)es with CAR T cell efficacy325
Enhancing childhood cancer targetability311
Shooting for multiplexed pathology with Orion302
Author Correction: Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling275
Author Correction: Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction248
A macrophage-activated abscopal effect236
Breaking frontiers with multidisciplinary cancer research210
ZFP281 drives a mesenchymal-like dormancy program in early disseminated breast cancer cells that prevents metastatic outgrowth in the lung208
An oncolytic circular RNA therapy207
The proteasome regulator PSME4 modulates proteasome activity and antigen diversity to abrogate antitumor immunity in NSCLC203
Evolutionary trajectories of IDH-mutant astrocytoma identify molecular grading markers related to cell cycling201
Considering molecular alterations as pan-cancer tissue-agnostic targets200
Landscape of prostate-specific membrane antigen heterogeneity and regulation in AR-positive and AR-negative metastatic prostate cancer189
A low-coverage liquid biopsy for lung cancer159
Author Correction: RIOK1 phase separation restricts PTEN translation via stress granules activating tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma156
Breast cancer cells survive chemotherapy by activating targetable immune-modulatory programs characterized by PD-L1 or CD80154
MALAT1 protects dormant tumor cells from immune elimination135
Different niches for stem cells carrying the same oncogenic driver affect pathogenesis and therapy response in myeloproliferative neoplasms132
Single-cell transcriptomic landscape deciphers olfactory neuroblastoma subtypes and intra-tumoral heterogeneity131
A single-cell map of dynamic chromatin landscapes of immune cells in renal cell carcinoma129
Repeated peripheral infusions of anti-EGFRvIII CAR T cells in combination with pembrolizumab show no efficacy in glioblastoma: a phase 1 trial129
The cGAS–STING pathway and cancer129
DePICting T cell–APC crosstalk in cancer128
Beating cancer one carbon at a time123
Expanding the options for KRAS inhibition121
Palmitate oxidation drives a pro-metastatic post-translational modification116
Impact of context-dependent autophagy states on tumor progression112
Targeting PRMT9-mediated arginine methylation suppresses cancer stem cell maintenance and elicits cGAS-mediated anticancer immunity111
Reply to: Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor111
Stress granules shape metabolic reprogramming and drug resistance109
Advancing therapeutics in small-cell lung cancer108
The importance of being generous103
Bone marrow progenitor-like cells against leukemia cure102
Determinants of resistance and response to melanoma therapy102
A targetable type III immune response with increase of IL-17A expressing CD4+ T cells is associated with immunotherapy-induced toxicity in melanoma100
IKAROS and MENIN coordinate therapeutically actionable leukemogenic gene expression in MLL-r acute myeloid leukemia97
A tumor-derived type III collagen-rich ECM niche regulates tumor cell dormancy96
Shaping the microenvironment in peritoneal metastases95
Reflecting on the golden age of cancer research94
Adoptively transferred tumor-specific IL-9-producing cytotoxic CD8+ T cells activate host CD4+ T cells to control tumors with antigen loss93
crossNN is an explainable framework for cross-platform DNA methylation-based classification of tumors93
The labors of referees89
Cancer-derived mitochondria fuel fibroblasts to become pro-tumorigenic88
Sarcoma ecotypes determine immunotherapy benefit87
Antibody avidity meets multiple myeloma87
Circadian regulation of cancer stem cells and the tumor microenvironment during metastasis87
Thriving in diverse ecosystems86
Inflammation meets translation in AML86
A multiomic atlas identifies a treatment-resistant, bone marrow progenitor-like cell population in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia86
A quick guide for clinical oncology86
Discovery of potent and selective HER2 inhibitors with efficacy against HER2 exon 20 insertion-driven tumors, which preserve wild-type EGFR signaling85
Sex-specific gut microbiota and neutrophil senescence in bladder cancer85
Author Correction: Interleukin 17 signaling supports clinical benefit of dual CTLA-4 and PD-1 checkpoint inhibition in melanoma83
LAG-3 and PD-1 blockade raises the bar for melanoma83
Evolving landscape of nasopharyngeal carcinoma therapy82
Innate immunity drives epithelial cell plasticity during prostate tumor formation82
INPP5A phosphatase is a synthetic lethal target in GNAQ and GNA11-mutant melanomas82
A comeback for checkpoint inhibition in multiple myeloma82
Loss of the receptors ER, PR and HER2 promotes USP15-dependent stabilization of PARP1 in triple-negative breast cancer81
Proteogenomic landscape of human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in an Asian population reveals tumor cell-enriched and immune-rich subtypes80
ALK peptide vaccination restores the immunogenicity of ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer80
Clinical implementation of artificial-intelligence-assisted detection of breast cancer metastases in sentinel lymph nodes: the CONFIDENT-B single-center, non-randomized clinical trial79
Integrative single-cell analysis of human colorectal cancer reveals patient stratification with distinct immune evasion mechanisms79
Direct and selective pharmacological disruption of the YAP–TEAD interface by IAG933 inhibits Hippo-dependent and RAS–MAPK-altered cancers78
Cycling back to folate metabolism in cancer78
Efficacy of pembrolizumab and vorinostat combination in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinomas: a phase 2 basket trial77
Concurrent inhibition of tumor growth and metastasis by a lipidated nanophotosensitizer tracing and disabling tumor extracellular vesicles76
MCL1 inhibitor BRD-810 kills cancer cells while minimizing risk of cardiotoxicity75
Regulatory T cells play a crucial part in radio-immunotherapy resistance of brain tumors74
Immunosuppressive dura-derived macrophages in leptomeningeal metastasis72
Bispecific antibodies seek out colon cancer stem cells71
Radioligand cancer therapy comes to the fore71
Building a translational cancer dependency map for The Cancer Genome Atlas68
CHD1 status drives divergent metabolic pathways in SPOP-mutant prostate cancer68
Radiation sparks a dark side in neutrophils67
Multimodal data integration improves immunotherapy response prediction66
Immunotargeting of a recurrent AML-specific neoantigen65
Multiregion sampling of de novo metastatic prostate cancer reveals complex polyclonality and augments clinical genotyping65
Dual inhibition of EGFR and PI3K with a single drug65
A phase II study of talazoparib monotherapy in patients with wild-type BRCA1 and BRCA2 with a mutation in other homologous recombination genes64
Differential chromatin accessibility and transcriptional dynamics define breast cancer subtypes and their lineages64
How AI agents will change cancer research and oncology64
First-in-class ultralong-target-residence-time p38α inhibitors as a mitosis-targeted therapy for colorectal cancer61
Three-dimensional imaging mass cytometry for highly multiplexed molecular and cellular mapping of tissues and the tumor microenvironment61
PD-1 instructs a tumor-suppressive metabolic program that restricts glycolysis and restrains AP-1 activity in T cell lymphoma60
Selective targeting of malignant T cells60
Author Correction: Ectopic JAK–STAT activation enables the transition to a stem-like and multilineage state conferring AR-targeted therapy resistance60
GEMys homing in on metastasis60
The Cancer Surfaceome Atlas integrates genomic, functional and drug response data to identify actionable targets59
Targeting BRCA-mutated tumors in mitosis59
LCOR mediates interferon-independent tumor immunogenicity and responsiveness to immune-checkpoint blockade in triple-negative breast cancer59
AKTing on XPO1 inhibition in AML59
Highlights from the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting58
The tumor microenvironment’s role in the response to immune checkpoint blockade57
Protein-level mutant p53 reporters identify druggable rare precancerous clones in noncancerous tissues57
The dopamine transporter antagonist vanoxerine inhibits G9a and suppresses cancer stem cell functions in colon tumors57
Macrophage mitochondrial fission improves cancer cell phagocytosis induced by therapeutic antibodies and is impaired by glutamine competition57
Threonine fuels glioblastoma through YRDC-mediated codon-biased translational reprogramming56
Bispecific chimeric T cell receptors tackle tumor heterogeneity56
BRD-810 is a highly selective MCL1 inhibitor with optimized in vivo clearance and robust efficacy in solid and hematological tumor models55
Single-cell analyses implicate ascites in remodeling the ecosystems of primary and metastatic tumors in ovarian cancer55
The pro-oncogenic noncanonical activity of a RAS•GTP:RanGAP1 complex facilitates nuclear protein export55
Single-cell meta-analyses reveal responses of tumor-reactive CXCL13+ T cells to immune-checkpoint blockade54
Single-cell analysis and functional characterization uncover the stem cell hierarchies and developmental origins of rhabdomyosarcoma54
Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling54
Epigenetic plasticity in PDAC54
Advances in antibody-based therapy in oncology54
Anything to declare?54
Myeloma evades T cell-engaging therapies53
An antisense RNA promotes breast cancer metastasis via upregulation of NQO153
Author Correction: Anti-CTLA-4 antibodies drive myeloid activation and reprogram the tumor microenvironment through FcγR engagement and type I interferon signaling53
Metabolic symbiosis in pancreatic cancer53
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy marks a new era in oncology53
Author Correction: An inflammatory state remodels the immune microenvironment and improves risk stratification in acute myeloid leukemia52
Author Correction: Acquired resistance to a GPRC5D-directed T-cell engager in multiple myeloma is mediated by genetic or epigenetic target inactivation52
Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer subtypes show differential macrophage functions51
SETD2 loss perturbs the kidney cancer epigenetic landscape to promote metastasis and engenders actionable dependencies on histone chaperone complexes49
In vivo macrophage engineering for renal cancer therapy49
An unexpected career in cancer metabolism49
Author Correction: Autotaxin–lysolipid signaling suppresses a CCL11–eosinophil axis to promote pancreatic cancer progression48
There are gremlins in prostate cancer47
Innate immunity and the NF-κB pathway control prostate stem cell plasticity, reprogramming and tumor initiation47
p53 at the crossroads of tumor immunity47
Dual modulation of cytotoxic and checkpoint receptors tunes the efficacy of adoptive Delta One T cell therapy against colorectal cancer47
Sarcoma microenvironment cell states and ecosystems are associated with prognosis and predict response to immunotherapy46
Clonal origin of KMT2A wild-type lineage-switch leukemia following CAR-T cell and blinatumomab therapy46
Targeting ADAR1 with a small molecule for the treatment of prostate cancer46
Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor46
P2RY2-AKT activation is a therapeutically actionable consequence of XPO1 inhibition in acute myeloid leukemia46
An anti-PD-1–GITR-L bispecific agonist induces GITR clustering-mediated T cell activation for cancer immunotherapy45
Tumor evolution metrics predict recurrence beyond 10 years in locally advanced prostate cancer45
Clinical and translational attributes of immune-related adverse events45
A single-cell atlas of glioblastoma evolution under therapy reveals cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets45
Circumventing the roadblocks to targeting EGFR-driven cancers45
Author Correction: Loss of MAT2A compromises methionine metabolism and represents a vulnerability in H3K27M mutant glioma by modulating the epigenome44
PD-L2 expression in senescent cancer cells limits tumor clearance after chemotherapy44
A new sophistication for breast cancer PDXs44
Mitochondrial DNA mutation enhances sensitivity to immunotherapy in melanoma44
Unique structural configuration of EV-DNA primes Kupffer cell-mediated antitumor immunity to prevent metastatic progression43
Masking T cell engagers mitigates on-target off-tumor activity43
Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction42
Overcoming extracellular vesicle-mediated fratricide improves CAR T cell treatment against solid tumors42
CAR T cell therapy: looking back and looking forward42
A randomized, non-comparative phase 2 study of neoadjuvant immune-checkpoint blockade in retroperitoneal dedifferentiated liposarcoma and extremity/truncal undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma41
UnitedMet harnesses RNA–metabolite covariation to impute metabolite levels in clinical samples41
Tumor-intrinsic sensitivity to the pro-apoptotic effects of IFN-γ is a major determinant of CD4+ CAR T-cell antitumor activity40
Targeting PARP11 to avert immunosuppression and improve CAR T therapy in solid tumors40
Multiomics in primary and metastatic breast tumors from the AURORA US network finds microenvironment and epigenetic drivers of metastasis40
A reversible SRC-relayed COX2 inflammatory program drives resistance to BRAF and EGFR inhibition in BRAFV600E colorectal tumors40
Understanding the biology of lung cancer brain metastases40
TIGIT and PD-L1 co-blockade promotes clonal expansion of multipotent, non-exhausted antitumor T cells by facilitating co-stimulation39
FLASH radiation reprograms lipid metabolism and macrophage immunity and sensitizes medulloblastoma to CAR-T cell therapy39
Tumor-associated macrophages restrict CD8+ T cell function through collagen deposition and metabolic reprogramming of the breast cancer microenvironment39
CD8+ T cell killing of MHC class I–deficient tumors39
Glutaminase inhibition in combination with azacytidine in myelodysplastic syndromes: a phase 1b/2 clinical trial and correlative analyses39
Leveraging the potential for deintensification in cancer care38
CD103+ regulatory T cells underlie resistance to radio-immunotherapy and impair CD8+ T cell activation in glioblastoma38
Spatially resolved transcriptomics and graph-based deep learning improve accuracy of routine CNS tumor diagnostics38
Communicating with respect38
Harnessing the microbiome to restore immunotherapy response38
Temporal single-cell tracing reveals clonal revival and expansion of precursor exhausted T cells during anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer38
The meaning of impact38
CD4+ CAR T cells — more than helpers37
Artificial intelligence for prostate cancer diagnostics36
Therapeutic targeting of the mevalonate–geranylgeranyl diphosphate pathway with statins overcomes chemotherapy resistance in small cell lung cancer36
Leveraging translational insights toward precision medicine approaches for brain metastases35
Near-infrared optogenetic engineering of bacteria for cancer therapy34
Insight from the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 202534
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia displays a distinct highly methylated genome34
Genomic and immune signatures predict clinical outcome in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma treated with immunotherapy regimens34
SWIFT-seq enables comprehensive single-cell transcriptomic profiling of circulating tumor cells in multiple myeloma and its precursors34
EZH2 inhibition remodels the inflammatory senescence-associated secretory phenotype to potentiate pancreatic cancer immune surveillance34
Global loss of promoter–enhancer connectivity and rebalancing of gene expression during early colorectal cancer carcinogenesis33
Efficacy and tolerability of neoadjuvant therapy with Talimogene laherparepvec in cutaneous basal cell carcinoma: a phase II trial (NeoBCC trial)33
Radiopharma pipeline builds ahead of key data32
Commensal metabolite boosts chemotherapy31
The aging lung reawakens dormant tumor cells31
Fibrotic tumors tune metabolism for immune evasion31
Disparities, aging and childhood cancer31
Author Correction: Cytokine release syndrome-like serum responses after COVID-19 vaccination are frequent and clinically inapparent under cancer immunotherapy31
‘IL-2Rα-biased’ IL-2 for cancer immunotherapy31
The rapidly evolving paradigm of neoadjuvant immunotherapy across cancer types31
Cytidine deaminases APOBEC3C and APOBEC3D promote DNA replication stress resistance in pancreatic cancer cells30
Melanoma-derived small extracellular vesicles induce lymphangiogenesis and metastasis through an NGFR-dependent mechanism29
Context-dependent tumor-suppressive BMP signaling in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma regulates stemness through epigenetic regulation of CXXC529
Integrative analysis of risk factors for immune-related adverse events of checkpoint blockade therapy in cancer29
The landscape of T cell antigens for cancer immunotherapy29
Targeting the histone reader ZMYND8 inhibits antiandrogen-induced neuroendocrine tumor transdifferentiation of prostate cancer29
ISB 2001 trispecific T cell engager shows strong tumor cytotoxicity and overcomes immune escape mechanisms of multiple myeloma cells29
Probing clonal dynamics with single-cell genomics28
The growing threat of cyberwarfare in cancer healthcare28
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 trial28
Targeting HIF-1 to treat AML28
Stargazing through the lens of AI in clinical oncology28
The two sides of the γδ T cell coin27
CAR T cell therapy for multiple myeloma27
Not a generative AI–generated Editorial27
Bicarbonate transport as a vulnerability in pancreatic cancer27
Checking immunotoxicity risks of checkpoint blockade27
Remodeling cyclophilin A to target KRAS27
T cells lead the charge against solid tumors26
Imetelstat-mediated alterations in fatty acid metabolism to induce ferroptosis as a therapeutic strategy for acute myeloid leukemia26
Network-based assessment of HDAC6 activity predicts preclinical and clinical responses to the HDAC6 inhibitor ricolinostat in breast cancer26
Publisher Correction: Cancer’s new normal26
Safety and feasibility of 4-1BB co-stimulated CD19-specific CAR-NK cell therapy in refractory/relapsed large B cell lymphoma: a phase 1 trial26
LncRNA Malat1 suppresses pyroptosis and T cell-mediated killing of incipient metastatic cells26
Checkpoint blockade regulates T cell fate by supporting co-stimulation26
Resistance is futile with fourth-generation EGFR inhibitors26
ERK1/2 phosphorylation predicts survival following anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in recurrent glioblastoma25
Tumor-specific cholinergic CD4+ T lymphocytes guide immunosurveillance of hepatocellular carcinoma25
Phenotypic diversity of T cells in human primary and metastatic brain tumors revealed by multiomic interrogation24
Radiotherapy in combination with CD47 blockade elicits a macrophage-mediated abscopal effect24
Selective multi-kinase inhibition sensitizes mesenchymal pancreatic cancer to immune checkpoint blockade by remodeling the tumor microenvironment24
The craft (and art) of scientific writing23
The editors’ point of view23
A roadmap of therapeutic strategies for patients with multiple myeloma23
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy enriches for drug-tolerant persisters in PDAC23
Neutrophils determine immunotherapy success23
APOBEC3A drives STING-dependent metastasis23
SIGLEC9 tips the myeloid balance in glioblastoma22
Mini colons to study cancer ex vivo22
Keeping brain metastases dormant22
Exploiting HLA-DR mismatches for CAR therapy in acute myeloid leukemia22
Inferring early genetic progression in cancers with unobtainable premalignant disease21
A designer peptide against the EAG2–Kvβ2 potassium channel targets the interaction of cancer cells and neurons to treat glioblastoma21
Understanding inequities in precision oncology diagnostics21
Characterization of cis-regulatory elements and functional variants in colorectal cancer using epigenomics and CRISPRi screenings21
Combination of pembrolizumab and radiotherapy induces systemic antitumor immune responses in immunologically cold non-small cell lung cancer21
An in vitro-transcribed circular RNA targets the mitochondrial inner membrane cardiolipin to ablate EIF4G2+/PTBP1+ pan-adenocarcinoma20
Cell type and gene expression deconvolution with BayesPrism enables Bayesian integrative analysis across bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing in oncology20
Multipotent lineage potential in B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is associated with distinct cellular origins and clinical features20
Blocking methionine catabolism induces senescence and confers vulnerability to GSK3 inhibition in liver cancer20
A T cell receptor targeting a recurrent driver mutation in FLT3 mediates elimination of primary human acute myeloid leukemia in vivo20
Targeting TAK1 in microglia to treat CAR T cell neurotoxicity20
PD-1 defines a distinct, functional, tissue-adapted state in Vδ1+ T cells with implications for cancer immunotherapy20
Hallmarks of artificial intelligence contributions to precision oncology20
Inhibition of ADAM9 promotes the selective degradation of KRAS and sensitizes pancreatic cancers to chemotherapy19
Glutamine analogs for pancreatic cancer therapy19
A Gremlin 1-expressing splenic niche cell population restrains chronic myeloid leukemia by antagonizing the BMP pathway19
Selective deficiency of mitochondrial respiratory complex I subunits Ndufs4/6 causes tumor immunogenicity19
Somatic evolution of marine transmissible leukemias in the common cockle, Cerastoderma edule19
Mesenchymal and adrenergic cell lineage states in neuroblastoma possess distinct immunogenic phenotypes19
Starfish infers signatures of complex genomic rearrangements across human cancers19
Integrated multiomic profiling of breast cancer in the Chinese population reveals patient stratification and therapeutic vulnerabilities18
Mind the GAP(43) for mitochondria transfer to glioblastomas18
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