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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Untangling the threads of immunotherapy research604
Outcompeting neighbors for intestinal cancer initiation398
Gut decisions in CAR T cell therapy376
Alzheimer’s drug turns macrophages against cancer373
PARP11 interfer(on)es with CAR T cell efficacy317
Enhancing childhood cancer targetability311
Shooting for multiplexed pathology with Orion301
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: Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction269
A macrophage-activated abscopal effect238
Breaking frontiers with multidisciplinary cancer research226
MALAT1 protects dormant tumor cells from immune elimination206
Single-cell transcriptomic landscape deciphers olfactory neuroblastoma subtypes and intra-tumoral heterogeneity203
A single-cell map of dynamic chromatin landscapes of immune cells in renal cell carcinoma198
Considering molecular alterations as pan-cancer tissue-agnostic targets194
A low-coverage liquid biopsy for lung cancer194
Author Correction: RIOK1 phase separation restricts PTEN translation via stress granules activating tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma192
Author Correction: IL-17A-secreting γδ T cells promote resistance to CDK4/CDK6 inhibitors in HR+HER2− breast cancer via CX3CR1+ macrophages192
The proteasome regulator PSME4 modulates proteasome activity and antigen diversity to abrogate antitumor immunity in NSCLC186
Breast cancer cells survive chemotherapy by activating targetable immune-modulatory programs characterized by PD-L1 or CD80163
ZFP281 drives a mesenchymal-like dormancy program in early disseminated breast cancer cells that prevents metastatic outgrowth in the lung152
Evolutionary trajectories of IDH-mutant astrocytoma identify molecular grading markers related to cell cycling152
An oncolytic circular RNA therapy144
Different niches for stem cells carrying the same oncogenic driver affect pathogenesis and therapy response in myeloproliferative neoplasms133
Repeated peripheral infusions of anti-EGFRvIII CAR T cells in combination with pembrolizumab show no efficacy in glioblastoma: a phase 1 trial130
Landscape of prostate-specific membrane antigen heterogeneity and regulation in AR-positive and AR-negative metastatic prostate cancer127
The cGAS–STING pathway and cancer125
Expanding the options for KRAS inhibition124
The importance of being generous123
DePICting T cell–APC crosstalk in cancer117
Reflecting on the golden age of cancer research117
Beating cancer one carbon at a time116
Adoptively transferred tumor-specific IL-9-producing cytotoxic CD8+ T cells activate host CD4+ T cells to control tumors with antigen loss112
Advancing therapeutics in small-cell lung cancer110
Determinants of resistance and response to melanoma therapy109
Bone marrow progenitor-like cells against leukemia cure108
Palmitate oxidation drives a pro-metastatic post-translational modification106
Shaping the microenvironment in peritoneal metastases106
Stress granules shape metabolic reprogramming and drug resistance105
crossNN is an explainable framework for cross-platform DNA methylation-based classification of tumors103
A targetable type III immune response with increase of IL-17A expressing CD4+ T cells is associated with immunotherapy-induced toxicity in melanoma98
Reply to: Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor95
Targeting PRMT9-mediated arginine methylation suppresses cancer stem cell maintenance and elicits cGAS-mediated anticancer immunity94
Impact of context-dependent autophagy states on tumor progression93
IKAROS and MENIN coordinate therapeutically actionable leukemogenic gene expression in MLL-r acute myeloid leukemia92
The labors of referees92
A tumor-derived type III collagen-rich ECM niche regulates tumor cell dormancy92
Cycling back to folate metabolism in cancer91
Thriving in diverse ecosystems91
A quick guide for clinical oncology87
Sex-specific gut microbiota and neutrophil senescence in bladder cancer84
Inflammation meets translation in AML84
Antibody avidity meets multiple myeloma84
Sarcoma ecotypes determine immunotherapy benefit84
LAG-3 and PD-1 blockade raises the bar for melanoma83
Innate immunity drives epithelial cell plasticity during prostate tumor formation83
Author Correction: Interleukin 17 signaling supports clinical benefit of dual CTLA-4 and PD-1 checkpoint inhibition in melanoma83
Proteogenomic landscape of human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in an Asian population reveals tumor cell-enriched and immune-rich subtypes82
Integrative single-cell analysis of human colorectal cancer reveals patient stratification with distinct immune evasion mechanisms81
Direct and selective pharmacological disruption of the YAP–TEAD interface by IAG933 inhibits Hippo-dependent and RAS–MAPK-altered cancers81
Loss of the receptors ER, PR and HER2 promotes USP15-dependent stabilization of PARP1 in triple-negative breast cancer81
Discovery of potent and selective HER2 inhibitors with efficacy against HER2 exon 20 insertion-driven tumors, which preserve wild-type EGFR signaling80
Circadian regulation of cancer stem cells and the tumor microenvironment during metastasis80
A comeback for checkpoint inhibition in multiple myeloma80
Cancer-derived mitochondria fuel fibroblasts to become pro-tumorigenic80
A multiomic atlas identifies a treatment-resistant, bone marrow progenitor-like cell population in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia79
ALK peptide vaccination restores the immunogenicity of ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer79
INPP5A phosphatase is a synthetic lethal target in GNAQ and GNA11-mutant melanomas78
Clinical implementation of artificial-intelligence-assisted detection of breast cancer metastases in sentinel lymph nodes: the CONFIDENT-B single-center, non-randomized clinical trial78
Immunosuppressive dura-derived macrophages in leptomeningeal metastasis76
Bispecific antibodies seek out colon cancer stem cells76
Regulatory T cells play a crucial part in radio-immunotherapy resistance of brain tumors76
MCL1 inhibitor BRD-810 kills cancer cells while minimizing risk of cardiotoxicity76
Radioligand cancer therapy comes to the fore76
Radiation sparks a dark side in neutrophils76
Building a translational cancer dependency map for The Cancer Genome Atlas75
CHD1 status drives divergent metabolic pathways in SPOP-mutant prostate cancer74
Multiregion sampling of de novo metastatic prostate cancer reveals complex polyclonality and augments clinical genotyping72
Author Correction: Engineering-enhanced CAR T cells for improved cancer therapy72
Differential chromatin accessibility and transcriptional dynamics define breast cancer subtypes and their lineages69
Dual inhibition of EGFR and PI3K with a single drug67
Author Correction: Ectopic JAK–STAT activation enables the transition to a stem-like and multilineage state conferring AR-targeted therapy resistance66
Multimodal data integration improves immunotherapy response prediction65
PD-1 instructs a tumor-suppressive metabolic program that restricts glycolysis and restrains AP-1 activity in T cell lymphoma64
Immunotargeting of a recurrent AML-specific neoantigen64
Three-dimensional imaging mass cytometry for highly multiplexed molecular and cellular mapping of tissues and the tumor microenvironment63
How AI agents will change cancer research and oncology63
A phase II study of talazoparib monotherapy in patients with wild-type BRCA1 and BRCA2 with a mutation in other homologous recombination genes63
First-in-class ultralong-target-residence-time p38α inhibitors as a mitosis-targeted therapy for colorectal cancer63
Concurrent inhibition of tumor growth and metastasis by a lipidated nanophotosensitizer tracing and disabling tumor extracellular vesicles60
GEMys homing in on metastasis60
Efficacy of pembrolizumab and vorinostat combination in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinomas: a phase 2 basket trial60
The dopamine transporter antagonist vanoxerine inhibits G9a and suppresses cancer stem cell functions in colon tumors59
Targeting BRCA-mutated tumors in mitosis58
Selective targeting of malignant T cells57
AKTing on XPO1 inhibition in AML57
Single-cell analysis and functional characterization uncover the stem cell hierarchies and developmental origins of rhabdomyosarcoma56
LCOR mediates interferon-independent tumor immunogenicity and responsiveness to immune-checkpoint blockade in triple-negative breast cancer56
Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling56
Threonine fuels glioblastoma through YRDC-mediated codon-biased translational reprogramming56
The pro-oncogenic noncanonical activity of a RAS•GTP:RanGAP1 complex facilitates nuclear protein export56
The Cancer Surfaceome Atlas integrates genomic, functional and drug response data to identify actionable targets56
Highlights from the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting56
Protein-level mutant p53 reporters identify druggable rare precancerous clones in noncancerous tissues55
BRD-810 is a highly selective MCL1 inhibitor with optimized in vivo clearance and robust efficacy in solid and hematological tumor models55
Advances in antibody-based therapy in oncology54
The tumor microenvironment’s role in the response to immune checkpoint blockade54
Bispecific chimeric T cell receptors tackle tumor heterogeneity54
Single-cell analyses implicate ascites in remodeling the ecosystems of primary and metastatic tumors in ovarian cancer54
Single-cell meta-analyses reveal responses of tumor-reactive CXCL13+ T cells to immune-checkpoint blockade54
Macrophage mitochondrial fission improves cancer cell phagocytosis induced by therapeutic antibodies and is impaired by glutamine competition54
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy marks a new era in oncology53
Anything to declare?53
Epigenetic plasticity in PDAC53
An antisense RNA promotes breast cancer metastasis via upregulation of NQO152
Myeloma evades T cell-engaging therapies52
Author Correction: Anti-CTLA-4 antibodies drive myeloid activation and reprogram the tumor microenvironment through FcγR engagement and type I interferon signaling52
Tumor evolution metrics predict recurrence beyond 10 years in locally advanced prostate cancer51
An anti-PD-1–GITR-L bispecific agonist induces GITR clustering-mediated T cell activation for cancer immunotherapy50
In vivo macrophage engineering for renal cancer therapy50
P2RY2-AKT activation is a therapeutically actionable consequence of XPO1 inhibition in acute myeloid leukemia49
Innate immunity and the NF-κB pathway control prostate stem cell plasticity, reprogramming and tumor initiation49
Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer subtypes show differential macrophage functions49
Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor49
Dual modulation of cytotoxic and checkpoint receptors tunes the efficacy of adoptive Delta One T cell therapy against colorectal cancer49
Clonal origin of KMT2A wild-type lineage-switch leukemia following CAR-T cell and blinatumomab therapy48
Author Correction: An inflammatory state remodels the immune microenvironment and improves risk stratification in acute myeloid leukemia47
p53 at the crossroads of tumor immunity47
Author Correction: Autotaxin–lysolipid signaling suppresses a CCL11–eosinophil axis to promote pancreatic cancer progression46
An unexpected career in cancer metabolism46
Author Correction: Acquired resistance to a GPRC5D-directed T-cell engager in multiple myeloma is mediated by genetic or epigenetic target inactivation46
Metabolic symbiosis in pancreatic cancer46
Sarcoma microenvironment cell states and ecosystems are associated with prognosis and predict response to immunotherapy45
Clinical and translational attributes of immune-related adverse events44
A single-cell atlas of glioblastoma evolution under therapy reveals cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets44
Targeting ADAR1 with a small molecule for the treatment of prostate cancer44
SETD2 loss perturbs the kidney cancer epigenetic landscape to promote metastasis and engenders actionable dependencies on histone chaperone complexes44
Circumventing the roadblocks to targeting EGFR-driven cancers44
There are gremlins in prostate cancer44
PD-L2 expression in senescent cancer cells limits tumor clearance after chemotherapy44
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
Mitochondrial DNA mutation enhances sensitivity to immunotherapy in melanoma43
A new sophistication for breast cancer PDXs43
Overcoming extracellular vesicle-mediated fratricide improves CAR T cell treatment against solid tumors42
Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction42
CAR T cell therapy: looking back and looking forward41
Understanding the biology of lung cancer brain metastases41
Multiomics in primary and metastatic breast tumors from the AURORA US network finds microenvironment and epigenetic drivers of metastasis40
Glutaminase inhibition in combination with azacytidine in myelodysplastic syndromes: a phase 1b/2 clinical trial and correlative analyses40
Targeting PARP11 to avert immunosuppression and improve CAR T therapy in solid tumors40
UnitedMet harnesses RNA–metabolite covariation to impute metabolite levels in clinical samples40
FLASH radiation reprograms lipid metabolism and macrophage immunity and sensitizes medulloblastoma to CAR-T cell therapy40
Unique structural configuration of EV-DNA primes Kupffer cell-mediated antitumor immunity to prevent metastatic progression39
TIGIT and PD-L1 co-blockade promotes clonal expansion of multipotent, non-exhausted antitumor T cells by facilitating co-stimulation39
CD103+ regulatory T cells underlie resistance to radio-immunotherapy and impair CD8+ T cell activation in glioblastoma39
CD8+ T cell killing of MHC class I–deficient tumors39
Tumor-intrinsic sensitivity to the pro-apoptotic effects of IFN-γ is a major determinant of CD4+ CAR T-cell antitumor activity38
A reversible SRC-relayed COX2 inflammatory program drives resistance to BRAF and EGFR inhibition in BRAFV600E colorectal tumors38
Temporal single-cell tracing reveals clonal revival and expansion of precursor exhausted T cells during anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer38
A randomized, non-comparative phase 2 study of neoadjuvant immune-checkpoint blockade in retroperitoneal dedifferentiated liposarcoma and extremity/truncal undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma38
Tumor-associated macrophages restrict CD8+ T cell function through collagen deposition and metabolic reprogramming of the breast cancer microenvironment38
Near-infrared optogenetic engineering of bacteria for cancer therapy37
Communicating with respect37
Efficacy and tolerability of neoadjuvant therapy with Talimogene laherparepvec in cutaneous basal cell carcinoma: a phase II trial (NeoBCC trial)37
Harnessing the microbiome to restore immunotherapy response37
Insight from the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 202537
The meaning of impact37
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia displays a distinct highly methylated genome36
Global loss of promoter–enhancer connectivity and rebalancing of gene expression during early colorectal cancer carcinogenesis36
SWIFT-seq enables comprehensive single-cell transcriptomic profiling of circulating tumor cells in multiple myeloma and its precursors36
Spatially resolved transcriptomics and graph-based deep learning improve accuracy of routine CNS tumor diagnostics35
Leveraging the potential for deintensification in cancer care34
Leveraging translational insights toward precision medicine approaches for brain metastases34
Genomic and immune signatures predict clinical outcome in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma treated with immunotherapy regimens34
CD4+ CAR T cells — more than helpers34
EZH2 inhibition remodels the inflammatory senescence-associated secretory phenotype to potentiate pancreatic cancer immune surveillance33
Therapeutic targeting of the mevalonate–geranylgeranyl diphosphate pathway with statins overcomes chemotherapy resistance in small cell lung cancer33
Disparities, aging and childhood cancer32
Commensal metabolite boosts chemotherapy32
‘IL-2Rα-biased’ IL-2 for cancer immunotherapy32
Author Correction: Cytokine release syndrome-like serum responses after COVID-19 vaccination are frequent and clinically inapparent under cancer immunotherapy31
Immunoradiotherapy goes club(bing)31
The aging lung reawakens dormant tumor cells31
The rapidly evolving paradigm of neoadjuvant immunotherapy across cancer types30
Targeting the histone reader ZMYND8 inhibits antiandrogen-induced neuroendocrine tumor transdifferentiation of prostate cancer30
Cytidine deaminases APOBEC3C and APOBEC3D promote DNA replication stress resistance in pancreatic cancer cells30
Targeting HIF-1 to treat AML29
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 trial29
The landscape of T cell antigens for cancer immunotherapy29
Context-dependent tumor-suppressive BMP signaling in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma regulates stemness through epigenetic regulation of CXXC528
CAR T cell therapy for multiple myeloma28
Fibrotic tumors tune metabolism for immune evasion28
Melanoma-derived small extracellular vesicles induce lymphangiogenesis and metastasis through an NGFR-dependent mechanism28
Integrative analysis of risk factors for immune-related adverse events of checkpoint blockade therapy in cancer28
ISB 2001 trispecific T cell engager shows strong tumor cytotoxicity and overcomes immune escape mechanisms of multiple myeloma cells28
T cells lead the charge against solid tumors27
Checkpoint blockade regulates T cell fate by supporting co-stimulation27
Probing clonal dynamics with single-cell genomics27
Publisher Correction: Cancer’s new normal27
The growing threat of cyberwarfare in cancer healthcare27
Checking immunotoxicity risks of checkpoint blockade27
Not a generative AI–generated Editorial27
Remodeling cyclophilin A to target KRAS26
Bicarbonate transport as a vulnerability in pancreatic cancer26
LncRNA Malat1 suppresses pyroptosis and T cell-mediated killing of incipient metastatic cells26
The two sides of the γδ T cell coin26
Selective multi-kinase inhibition sensitizes mesenchymal pancreatic cancer to immune checkpoint blockade by remodeling the tumor microenvironment26
ERK1/2 phosphorylation predicts survival following anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in recurrent glioblastoma26
Stargazing through the lens of AI in clinical oncology26
Phenotypic diversity of T cells in human primary and metastatic brain tumors revealed by multiomic interrogation26
Resistance is futile with fourth-generation EGFR inhibitors26
Tumor-specific cholinergic CD4+ T lymphocytes guide immunosurveillance of hepatocellular carcinoma25
Network-based assessment of HDAC6 activity predicts preclinical and clinical responses to the HDAC6 inhibitor ricolinostat in breast cancer25
Safety and feasibility of 4-1BB co-stimulated CD19-specific CAR-NK cell therapy in refractory/relapsed large B cell lymphoma: a phase 1 trial25
Radiotherapy in combination with CD47 blockade elicits a macrophage-mediated abscopal effect24
Imetelstat-mediated alterations in fatty acid metabolism to induce ferroptosis as a therapeutic strategy for acute myeloid leukemia24
The editors’ point of view24
The craft (and art) of scientific writing23
Mini colons to study cancer ex vivo23
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy enriches for drug-tolerant persisters in PDAC23
A roadmap of therapeutic strategies for patients with multiple myeloma23
Exploiting HLA-DR mismatches for CAR therapy in acute myeloid leukemia22
APOBEC3A drives STING-dependent metastasis22
Keeping brain metastases dormant22
Neutrophils determine immunotherapy success22
SIGLEC9 tips the myeloid balance in glioblastoma22
Understanding inequities in precision oncology diagnostics21
Combination of pembrolizumab and radiotherapy induces systemic antitumor immune responses in immunologically cold non-small cell lung cancer21
Blocking methionine catabolism induces senescence and confers vulnerability to GSK3 inhibition in liver cancer21
A designer peptide against the EAG2–Kvβ2 potassium channel targets the interaction of cancer cells and neurons to treat glioblastoma21
Hallmarks of artificial intelligence contributions to precision oncology21
Characterization of cis-regulatory elements and functional variants in colorectal cancer using epigenomics and CRISPRi screenings20
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
A T cell receptor targeting a recurrent driver mutation in FLT3 mediates elimination of primary human acute myeloid leukemia in vivo20
PD-1 defines a distinct, functional, tissue-adapted state in Vδ1+ T cells with implications for cancer immunotherapy20
Inferring early genetic progression in cancers with unobtainable premalignant disease19
Mind the GAP(43) for mitochondria transfer to glioblastomas19
SOS1 inhibitor combinations overcome KRAS inhibitor resistance19
Targeting TAK1 in microglia to treat CAR T cell neurotoxicity19
Glutamine analogs for pancreatic cancer therapy19
Before clicking the ‘submit’ button19
A Gremlin 1-expressing splenic niche cell population restrains chronic myeloid leukemia by antagonizing the BMP pathway19
Publisher Correction: TIGIT and PD-L1 co-blockade promotes clonal expansion of multipotent, non-exhausted antitumor T cells by facilitating co-stimulation19
Mesenchymal and adrenergic cell lineage states in neuroblastoma possess distinct immunogenic phenotypes18
Selective deficiency of mitochondrial respiratory complex I subunits Ndufs4/6 causes tumor immunogenicity18
Integrated multiomic profiling of breast cancer in the Chinese population reveals patient stratification and therapeutic vulnerabilities18
Somatic evolution of marine transmissible leukemias in the common cockle, Cerastoderma edule18
Proteogenomics of non-small cell lung cancer reveals molecular subtypes associated with specific therapeutic targets and immune-evasion mechanisms18
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