Nature Cancer

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Cancer is 29. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Outcompeting neighbors for intestinal cancer initiation633
Gut decisions in CAR T cell therapy433
Untangling the threads of immunotherapy research431
Enhancing childhood cancer targetability428
Shooting for multiplexed pathology with Orion357
Author Correction: Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling349
Author Correction: Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction330
Breaking frontiers with multidisciplinary cancer research328
A low-coverage liquid biopsy for lung cancer289
Author Correction: RIOK1 phase separation restricts PTEN translation via stress granules activating tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma268
Author Correction: IL-17A-secreting γδ T cells promote resistance to CDK4/CDK6 inhibitors in HR+HER2− breast cancer via CX3CR1+ macrophages260
A macrophage-activated abscopal effect251
Evolutionary trajectories of IDH-mutant astrocytoma identify molecular grading markers related to cell cycling226
An oncolytic circular RNA therapy225
Single-cell transcriptomic landscape deciphers olfactory neuroblastoma subtypes and intra-tumoral heterogeneity215
PARP11 interfer(on)es with CAR T cell efficacy213
Landscape of prostate-specific membrane antigen heterogeneity and regulation in AR-positive and AR-negative metastatic prostate cancer202
ZFP281 drives a mesenchymal-like dormancy program in early disseminated breast cancer cells that prevents metastatic outgrowth in the lung159
Considering molecular alterations as pan-cancer tissue-agnostic targets159
MALAT1 protects dormant tumor cells from immune elimination159
Different niches for stem cells carrying the same oncogenic driver affect pathogenesis and therapy response in myeloproliferative neoplasms146
The proteasome regulator PSME4 modulates proteasome activity and antigen diversity to abrogate antitumor immunity in NSCLC146
Breast cancer cells survive chemotherapy by activating targetable immune-modulatory programs characterized by PD-L1 or CD80142
The cGAS–STING pathway and cancer136
A single-cell map of dynamic chromatin landscapes of immune cells in renal cell carcinoma136
Repeated peripheral infusions of anti-EGFRvIII CAR T cells in combination with pembrolizumab show no efficacy in glioblastoma: a phase 1 trial132
DePICting T cell–APC crosstalk in cancer124
Beating cancer one carbon at a time122
Expanding the options for KRAS inhibition121
Palmitate oxidation drives a pro-metastatic post-translational modification119
Reply to: Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor117
The importance of being generous115
Stress granules shape metabolic reprogramming and drug resistance115
Targeting PRMT9-mediated arginine methylation suppresses cancer stem cell maintenance and elicits cGAS-mediated anticancer immunity112
Bone marrow progenitor-like cells against leukemia cure111
Shaping the microenvironment in peritoneal metastases110
Reflecting on the golden age of cancer research109
Determinants of resistance and response to melanoma therapy107
crossNN is an explainable framework for cross-platform DNA methylation-based classification of tumors100
IKAROS and MENIN coordinate therapeutically actionable leukemogenic gene expression in MLL-r acute myeloid leukemia97
A targetable type III immune response with increase of IL-17A expressing CD4+ T cells is associated with immunotherapy-induced toxicity in melanoma97
Advancing therapeutics in small-cell lung cancer95
Impact of context-dependent autophagy states on tumor progression94
A tumor-derived type III collagen-rich ECM niche regulates tumor cell dormancy94
Adoptively transferred tumor-specific IL-9-producing cytotoxic CD8+ T cells activate host CD4+ T cells to control tumors with antigen loss93
Author Correction: Interleukin 17 signaling supports clinical benefit of dual CTLA-4 and PD-1 checkpoint inhibition in melanoma93
Innate immunity drives epithelial cell plasticity during prostate tumor formation92
Sarcoma ecotypes determine immunotherapy benefit91
Thriving in diverse ecosystems91
Antibody avidity meets multiple myeloma91
Evolving landscape of nasopharyngeal carcinoma therapy90
Inflammation meets translation in AML90
SCRN1 confers hepatocellular carcinoma resistance to ferroptosis by stabilizing GPX4 via STK38-mediated phosphorylation89
Sex-specific gut microbiota and neutrophil senescence in bladder cancer89
Cancer-derived mitochondria fuel fibroblasts to become pro-tumorigenic89
Cycling back to folate metabolism in cancer88
Circadian regulation of cancer stem cells and the tumor microenvironment during metastasis87
Discovery of potent and selective HER2 inhibitors with efficacy against HER2 exon 20 insertion-driven tumors, which preserve wild-type EGFR signaling86
Key insights from ESMO Congress 202586
Loss of the receptors ER, PR and HER2 promotes USP15-dependent stabilization of PARP1 in triple-negative breast cancer85
INPP5A phosphatase is a synthetic lethal target in GNAQ and GNA11-mutant melanomas81
A comeback for checkpoint inhibition in multiple myeloma81
A multiomic atlas identifies a treatment-resistant, bone marrow progenitor-like cell population in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia77
LAG-3 and PD-1 blockade raises the bar for melanoma76
Direct and selective pharmacological disruption of the YAP–TEAD interface by IAG933 inhibits Hippo-dependent and RAS–MAPK-altered cancers75
Clinical implementation of artificial-intelligence-assisted detection of breast cancer metastases in sentinel lymph nodes: the CONFIDENT-B single-center, non-randomized clinical trial74
ALK peptide vaccination restores the immunogenicity of ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer74
Integrative single-cell analysis of human colorectal cancer reveals patient stratification with distinct immune evasion mechanisms73
Proteogenomic landscape of human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in an Asian population reveals tumor cell-enriched and immune-rich subtypes73
MCL1 inhibitor BRD-810 kills cancer cells while minimizing risk of cardiotoxicity72
Immunosuppressive dura-derived macrophages in leptomeningeal metastasis71
Regulatory T cells play a crucial part in radio-immunotherapy resistance of brain tumors71
Radioligand cancer therapy comes to the fore70
CHD1 status drives divergent metabolic pathways in SPOP-mutant prostate cancer69
Radiation sparks a dark side in neutrophils68
Differential chromatin accessibility and transcriptional dynamics define breast cancer subtypes and their lineages67
Building a translational cancer dependency map for The Cancer Genome Atlas67
Multimodal data integration improves immunotherapy response prediction67
PD-1 instructs a tumor-suppressive metabolic program that restricts glycolysis and restrains AP-1 activity in T cell lymphoma67
First-in-class ultralong-target-residence-time p38α inhibitors as a mitosis-targeted therapy for colorectal cancer66
Author Correction: Ectopic JAK–STAT activation enables the transition to a stem-like and multilineage state conferring AR-targeted therapy resistance65
Bispecific antibodies seek out colon cancer stem cells65
Immunotargeting of a recurrent AML-specific neoantigen65
Efficacy of pembrolizumab and vorinostat combination in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinomas: a phase 2 basket trial64
Dual inhibition of EGFR and PI3K with a single drug63
How AI agents will change cancer research and oncology63
Concurrent inhibition of tumor growth and metastasis by a lipidated nanophotosensitizer tracing and disabling tumor extracellular vesicles63
Multiregion sampling of de novo metastatic prostate cancer reveals complex polyclonality and augments clinical genotyping62
A phase II study of talazoparib monotherapy in patients with wild-type BRCA1 and BRCA2 with a mutation in other homologous recombination genes62
GEMys homing in on metastasis61
Three-dimensional imaging mass cytometry for highly multiplexed molecular and cellular mapping of tissues and the tumor microenvironment61
Selective targeting of malignant T cells60
Highlights from the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting59
BRD-810 is a highly selective MCL1 inhibitor with optimized in vivo clearance and robust efficacy in solid and hematological tumor models59
AKTing on XPO1 inhibition in AML59
Protein-level mutant p53 reporters identify druggable rare precancerous clones in noncancerous tissues59
Targeting BRCA-mutated tumors in mitosis59
Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling58
Threonine fuels glioblastoma through YRDC-mediated codon-biased translational reprogramming57
Bispecific chimeric T cell receptors tackle tumor heterogeneity57
LCOR mediates interferon-independent tumor immunogenicity and responsiveness to immune-checkpoint blockade in triple-negative breast cancer57
Advances in antibody-based therapy in oncology56
The pro-oncogenic noncanonical activity of a RAS•GTP:RanGAP1 complex facilitates nuclear protein export56
Single-cell analysis and functional characterization uncover the stem cell hierarchies and developmental origins of rhabdomyosarcoma56
The dopamine transporter antagonist vanoxerine inhibits G9a and suppresses cancer stem cell functions in colon tumors56
Macrophage mitochondrial fission improves cancer cell phagocytosis induced by therapeutic antibodies and is impaired by glutamine competition55
Single-cell analyses implicate ascites in remodeling the ecosystems of primary and metastatic tumors in ovarian cancer55
Single-cell meta-analyses reveal responses of tumor-reactive CXCL13+ T cells to immune-checkpoint blockade55
The tumor microenvironment’s role in the response to immune checkpoint blockade55
The Cancer Surfaceome Atlas integrates genomic, functional and drug response data to identify actionable targets55
Anything to declare?54
Epigenetic plasticity in PDAC53
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy marks a new era in oncology53
An antisense RNA promotes breast cancer metastasis via upregulation of NQO153
An unexpected career in cancer metabolism52
Myeloma evades T cell-engaging therapies52
Author Correction: Acquired resistance to a GPRC5D-directed T-cell engager in multiple myeloma is mediated by genetic or epigenetic target inactivation52
Author Correction: Anti-CTLA-4 antibodies drive myeloid activation and reprogram the tumor microenvironment through FcγR engagement and type I interferon signaling52
Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer subtypes show differential macrophage functions52
Metabolic symbiosis in pancreatic cancer52
Author Correction: Autotaxin–lysolipid signaling suppresses a CCL11–eosinophil axis to promote pancreatic cancer progression51
P2RY2-AKT activation is a therapeutically actionable consequence of XPO1 inhibition in acute myeloid leukemia50
Author Correction: An inflammatory state remodels the immune microenvironment and improves risk stratification in acute myeloid leukemia50
There are gremlins in prostate cancer50
Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor50
Dual modulation of cytotoxic and checkpoint receptors tunes the efficacy of adoptive Delta One T cell therapy against colorectal cancer49
Innate immunity and the NF-κB pathway control prostate stem cell plasticity, reprogramming and tumor initiation49
An anti-PD-1–GITR-L bispecific agonist induces GITR clustering-mediated T cell activation for cancer immunotherapy49
Clonal origin of KMT2A wild-type lineage-switch leukemia following CAR-T cell and blinatumomab therapy49
In vivo macrophage engineering for renal cancer therapy48
p53 at the crossroads of tumor immunity48
Targeting ADAR1 with a small molecule for the treatment of prostate cancer48
SETD2 loss perturbs the kidney cancer epigenetic landscape to promote metastasis and engenders actionable dependencies on histone chaperone complexes48
Sarcoma microenvironment cell states and ecosystems are associated with prognosis and predict response to immunotherapy47
Clinical and translational attributes of immune-related adverse events46
A single-cell atlas of glioblastoma evolution under therapy reveals cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets46
Circumventing the roadblocks to targeting EGFR-driven cancers45
Mitochondrial DNA mutation enhances sensitivity to immunotherapy in melanoma45
Tumor evolution metrics predict recurrence beyond 10 years in locally advanced prostate cancer45
PD-L2 expression in senescent cancer cells limits tumor clearance after chemotherapy45
Understanding the biology of lung cancer brain metastases44
Overcoming extracellular vesicle-mediated fratricide improves CAR T cell treatment against solid tumors44
CAR T cell therapy: looking back and looking forward44
Masking T cell engagers mitigates on-target off-tumor activity44
A new sophistication for breast cancer PDXs44
Author Correction: Loss of MAT2A compromises methionine metabolism and represents a vulnerability in H3K27M mutant glioma by modulating the epigenome43
CD8+ T cell killing of MHC class I–deficient tumors41
Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction41
Glutaminase inhibition in combination with azacytidine in myelodysplastic syndromes: a phase 1b/2 clinical trial and correlative analyses40
Unique structural configuration of EV-DNA primes Kupffer cell-mediated antitumor immunity to prevent metastatic progression40
UnitedMet harnesses RNA–metabolite covariation to impute metabolite levels in clinical samples40
A reversible SRC-relayed COX2 inflammatory program drives resistance to BRAF and EGFR inhibition in BRAFV600E colorectal tumors40
CD103+ regulatory T cells underlie resistance to radio-immunotherapy and impair CD8+ T cell activation in glioblastoma40
Tumor-intrinsic sensitivity to the pro-apoptotic effects of IFN-γ is a major determinant of CD4+ CAR T-cell antitumor activity40
Multiomics in primary and metastatic breast tumors from the AURORA US network finds microenvironment and epigenetic drivers of metastasis40
Temporal single-cell tracing reveals clonal revival and expansion of precursor exhausted T cells during anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer39
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
Targeting PARP11 to avert immunosuppression and improve CAR T therapy in solid tumors39
TIGIT and PD-L1 co-blockade promotes clonal expansion of multipotent, non-exhausted antitumor T cells by facilitating co-stimulation37
Spatially resolved transcriptomics and graph-based deep learning improve accuracy of routine CNS tumor diagnostics36
A randomized, non-comparative phase 2 study of neoadjuvant immune-checkpoint blockade in retroperitoneal dedifferentiated liposarcoma and extremity/truncal undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma36
The meaning of impact36
Communicating with respect36
Efficacy and tolerability of neoadjuvant therapy with Talimogene laherparepvec in cutaneous basal cell carcinoma: a phase II trial (NeoBCC trial)35
Leveraging the potential for deintensification in cancer care35
CD4+ CAR T cells — more than helpers35
Harnessing the microbiome to restore immunotherapy response35
Near-infrared optogenetic engineering of bacteria for cancer therapy34
Radiopharma pipeline builds ahead of key data34
Artificial intelligence for prostate cancer diagnostics34
Insight from the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 202534
Global loss of promoter–enhancer connectivity and rebalancing of gene expression during early colorectal cancer carcinogenesis33
SWIFT-seq enables comprehensive single-cell transcriptomic profiling of circulating tumor cells in multiple myeloma and its precursors33
EZH2 inhibition remodels the inflammatory senescence-associated secretory phenotype to potentiate pancreatic cancer immune surveillance33
Leveraging translational insights toward precision medicine approaches for brain metastases33
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia displays a distinct highly methylated genome33
Genomic and immune signatures predict clinical outcome in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma treated with immunotherapy regimens32
Therapeutic targeting of the mevalonate–geranylgeranyl diphosphate pathway with statins overcomes chemotherapy resistance in small cell lung cancer32
‘IL-2Rα-biased’ IL-2 for cancer immunotherapy31
Disparities, aging and childhood cancer31
Commensal metabolite boosts chemotherapy31
Context-dependent tumor-suppressive BMP signaling in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma regulates stemness through epigenetic regulation of CXXC530
The aging lung reawakens dormant tumor cells30
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 trial30
Author Correction: Cytokine release syndrome-like serum responses after COVID-19 vaccination are frequent and clinically inapparent under cancer immunotherapy30
Targeting HIF-1 to treat AML30
Fibrotic tumors tune metabolism for immune evasion30
The rapidly evolving paradigm of neoadjuvant immunotherapy across cancer types29
Stargazing through the lens of AI in clinical oncology29
Probing clonal dynamics with single-cell genomics29
Integrative analysis of risk factors for immune-related adverse events of checkpoint blockade therapy in cancer29
Targeting the histone reader ZMYND8 inhibits antiandrogen-induced neuroendocrine tumor transdifferentiation of prostate cancer29
CAR T cell therapy for multiple myeloma29
ISB 2001 trispecific T cell engager shows strong tumor cytotoxicity and overcomes immune escape mechanisms of multiple myeloma cells29
The landscape of T cell antigens for cancer immunotherapy29
The growing threat of cyberwarfare in cancer healthcare29
Remodeling cyclophilin A to target KRAS29
Cytidine deaminases APOBEC3C and APOBEC3D promote DNA replication stress resistance in pancreatic cancer cells29
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