Nature Reviews Cancer

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Reviews Cancer is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Computing brain metastasis impact1770
Digging for treasures in the tumour interactome1268
An inhospitable site668
Combining spatial transcriptomics and AI to enhance brain tumour diagnosis623
Fructose takes a detour to feed cancer615
Implementing practice-changing progress for managing cancer of unknown primary412
Convergent inducers and effectors of T cell paralysis in the tumour microenvironment411
Emerging strategies to investigate the biology of early cancer409
Oncofetal reprogramming in tumour development and progression407
INVADEseq to study the intratumoural microbiota at host single-cell resolution391
Exploiting metabolic cell death for cancer therapy356
Combinatorial strategies to target RAS-driven cancers354
How medical anthropology can contribute to cancer research347
Mapping the prostate cell family tree342
Fighting cancer with fat324
Reply to ‘Heterogeneity of TP53 mutations necessitates differentiation with p53-rescue therapies’302
The recruitment of metastasis-associated monocytes283
Epithelial and stromal co-evolution and complicity in pancreatic cancer272
3D chromatin architecture as a predictor of somatic mutations in cancer genomes255
The evolution of cancer and ageing: a history of constraint236
Translating premalignant biology to accelerate non-small-cell lung cancer interception233
Context-dependent functions of pattern recognition receptors in cancer229
Beyond genetics: driving cancer with the tumour microenvironment behind the wheel228
Author Correction: Fighting rare cancers: lessons from fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma226
Gut microbes produce novel genotoxic metabolites221
Connie J. Eaves (1944–2024)221
The role of CRAF in cancer progression: from molecular mechanisms to precision therapies221
Tertiary lymphoid structures as hubs of antitumour immunity221
No mutation, tumour initiation201
Nanoreceptors take down mutant p53201
Impersonating neurons199
Dendritic cells rise and shine198
Tumour EVPs disrupt liver function194
AACR 2025187
Measuring HLA disruption using MHC Hammer175
Persistence is key173
Thelpers? More like Ttroublemakers172
Remodelling of the tumour microenvironment by the kallikrein-related peptidases172
Removing barriers to address sex differences in anticancer drug toxicity165
Moonlighting functions of glucose metabolic enzymes and metabolites in cancer164
Defining a ‘cells to society’ research framework for appendiceal tumours164
How chemokines organize the tumour microenvironment156
3D bioprinted cancer models: from basic biology to drug development155
Natural killer cells in antitumour adoptive cell immunotherapy150
Bone voyage: immune crosstalk sets sail145
B-ring sterols to the rescue142
Visualizing intratumoural heterogeneity with EpicMIBI140
Points of entry for tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes139
Environmental endocrine disruptors: rethinking the origins of early-onset ER+ breast cancer136
The immune microenvironment of colorectal cancer135
Identifying spatial cellular structures with SPACE-GM135
In-depth organoid profiling of pancreatic cancer133
Regulatory T cells in the tumour microenvironment127
Un-Fair Skin: racial disparities in acral melanoma research127
Metabolic interplays between the tumour and the host shape the tumour macroenvironment127
Leveraging the replication stress response to optimize cancer therapy126
The path to leptomeningeal metastasis123
Linking cell mechanical memory and cancer metastasis120
Dynamics and specificities of T cells in cancer immunotherapy115
In situ decellularization of tissues to resolve the tumour-associated matrix114
Understanding and addressing race disparities in childhood cancer outcomes108
Encoding spatial tumour dynamics with Starfysh107
Race influences the tumour microbiome106
Deciphering the cancer genome and epigenome101
The link between vitamin D and prostate cancer99
Don’t blame the messenger: lessons learned for cancer mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic97
Polygenic scores in cancer96
Being in the zone89
ER stress sparks nerve pain89
Targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy88
Cancer nanomedicine87
Acetyl-CoA metabolism in cancer84
RNA splicing dysregulation and the hallmarks of cancer83
Z-nucleic acids give immunotherapy a boost81
Local CAR manufacturing79
Author Correction: Antibody-based proteomics: fast-tracking molecular diagnostics in oncology78
Parity modulates epithelial–immune cell communication78
Prime editing GEMMs to model cancer mutations75
A trojan horse to target spliceosome mutant cells71
NOTUM-mediated stem cell competition in CRC71
Tamoxifen takes the wheel70
Expanding the utility of precision oncology knowledge bases68
Right ON target: a new RAS-GTP inhibitor66
Defining precancer: a grand challenge for the cancer community61
Integrative medicine in oncology: redefining the standard of care59
Chromothripsis in cancer57
Tertiary lymphoid structures in anticancer immunity55
Targeting ferroptosis as a vulnerability in cancer54
Androgen receptor signalling in non-prostatic malignancies: challenges and opportunities54
Neutrophils: a roadblock for immunotherapy53
In vivo labelling system to study cell neighbourhoods52
Revealing genomic secrets of archival FFPE samples51
Judith Campisi (1948–2024)51
Quantum probes in cancer research50
Functional lineage tracing to study the clonal evolution of therapy resistance48
New pathogen on the block48
Melanomagenesis antagonizes stem cell ageing46
Inferring cancer metabolism from gene-expression data46
N6-Methyladenosine: an RNA modification as a central regulator of cancer45
Immune-checkpoint inhibitor-mediated myocarditis: CTLA4, PD1 and LAG3 in the heart44
Recent advances in therapeutic cancer vaccines43
The present and future of the Cancer Dependency Map42
Carcinogenesis at single-cell resolution42
Patient-derived organoids unveil sarcoma vulnerabilities41
Epigenomic heterogeneity as a source of tumour evolution40
Bidirectional CART.BiTE cells bring new hope40
Global post-mortem tissue donation programmes to accelerate cancer research38
Focusing on the complex and dynamic interplay between ageing and cancer37
Transfer RNAs as dynamic and critical regulators of cancer progression35
A timeline of tumour-associated macrophage biology35
Developing dietary interventions as therapy for cancer35
Traject3d for studying 3D cellular heterogeneity34
Author Correction: Integrative medicine in oncology: redefining the standard of care34
Digitally enhanced Raman spectroscopy33
Harnessing the influenza virus to fight cancer32
Targeting cancer cell dormancy31
Fcγ receptors and immunomodulatory antibodies in cancer30
Mechanisms and treatment of cancer therapy-induced peripheral and central neurotoxicity30
Structural variations in cancer and the 3D genome28
Mechanisms, challenges and opportunities for FLASH radiotherapy in cancer28
Neuro-immune cross-talk in cancer27
The role of ROS in tumour development and progression25
Guardrails for the use of generalist AI in cancer care25
We cannot ignore the cancer risks of wildfires25
Immunogenic cell death in cancer: targeting necroptosis to induce antitumour immunity24
mRNA-based cancer therapeutics24
AACR 202423
Next-generation epidemiologic cohorts for cancer aetiology23
Ethnically diverse cancer cell lines for drug testing22
Male melanoma comes of age21
Modelling and deciphering tumour metabolism in CRISPR screens20
Fungi in cancer: not such a ‘fun-guy’20
CAFs promote CRPC19
Mechanisms driving the immunoregulatory function of cancer cells19
EMT in chemoresistance19
The role of eIF4F-driven mRNA translation in regulating the tumour microenvironment18
Advances in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma17
Decoding the functional impact of the cancer genome through protein–protein interactions17
Silent mutations make noise16
Energizing leukaemia16
Author Correction: Learning to distinguish progressive and non-progressive ductal carcinoma in situ16
Multiomics-guided cellular immunotherapies15
Same same but different15
Inflammatory neutrophils15
Key role for microbiota in gut–bone crosstalk14
Decoding the basis of histological variation in human cancer14
Disconnecting multicellular networks in brain tumours13
Advances in translational research of the rare cancer type adrenocortical carcinoma12
Exploiting senescence for the treatment of cancer12
Stemness in solid malignancies: coping with immune attack12
Deep tissue imaging of cancer in the infrared12
Therapeutic resistance to anti-oestrogen therapy in breast cancer12
Glioblastomas remodel neural circuits11
Enhanced transposable elements11
Air pollution promotes tumorigenesis through pre-existing oncogenic mutations10
Addressing the gaps in cancer screening for LGBTQ+ individuals10
Too much of a good thing9
Mapping out mitochondria9
Fungi in cancer8
Overcoming heterogeneity with 3D whole-tumour sampling8
Androgen receptor activation for breast cancer therapy8
Targeting sex steroid biosynthesis for breast and prostate cancer therapy8
Black voices in cancer research and oncology8
Aristolochic acid-associated cancers: a public health risk in need of global action8
Pathogenesis of cancers derived from thyroid follicular cells8
Limiting bias in AI models for improved and equitable cancer care8
Nucleotide metabolism: a pan-cancer metabolic dependency7
Breast milk for breast cancer detection7
Big data in basic and translational cancer research7
Genomic and fragmentomic landscapes of cell-free DNA for early cancer detection7
Cancer organoids 2.0: modelling the complexity of the tumour immune microenvironment7
Tumour avatars to model patients’ responses to immunotherapy6
Feeding latent brain metastasis6
Conventional chemotherapy: millions of cures, unresolved therapeutic index6
Intercepting gastric cancer6
Proximity labelling to study chromatin interactomes6
Modelling the ageing dependence of cancer evolutionary trajectories6
Polyamines in cancer: integrating organismal metabolism and antitumour immunity5
VIBRANT: mapping cell phenotypes using vibrational spectroscopy5
Understanding tumour endothelial cell heterogeneity and function from single-cell omics5
Epigenetic memory5
Protection against tumour formation5
The fibroinflammatory response in cancer5
Obesity as a promoter in BRCA mutation carriers5
Small speckles, big impact5
Defining and using immune archetypes to classify and treat cancer5
Replication timings affect the frequency of chromosomal translocation4
Lymphatic vessels in the age of cancer immunotherapy4
Tracing the evolutionary history of breast cancer4
Exploiting temporal aspects of cancer immunotherapy4
scAtlasVAE: a deep learning framework for generating a human CD8+ T cell atlas4
Studying extrachromosomal DNA with the ecTag method4
Enhancing cellular immunotherapies in cancer by engineering selective therapeutic resistance4
Multiplex protein imaging in tumour biology4
A machine learning toolkit for subtyping cancer in existing and new datasets4
Fighting rare cancers: lessons from fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma4
Targeting the roots of myeloid malignancies with T cell receptors4
Sex affects cancer genomes3
Lactate gives a sour taste3
The dynamic role of platelets in cancer progression and their therapeutic implications3
Epigenetic lesions drive gliomagenesis3
Aggregating premalignancy3
Presenting fibroblasts3
Heard immunity in CAR T cells3
Phosphoinositide kinases in cancer: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities3
Hidden epithelial subtypes refine colorectal cancer classification3
Cancer’s sensory experience3
Rusting away with age3
Hallmarks of sex bias in immuno-oncology: mechanisms and therapeutic implications3
Ageing lipids map melanoma’s journey3
Smokeless tobacco and cigarette smoking: chemical mechanisms and cancer prevention3
Stromal cells drive tumorigenesis in BRCA1 mutation carriers3
Taking a detour3
PDX models for functional precision oncology and discovery science3
Targeting the tumour’s little helpers2
A guide to transcriptomic deconvolution in cancer2
How protons pave the way to aggressive cancers2
Targeting aberrant splicing2
Naughty neutrophils2
Activated neutrophils: the anti-hero2
Characterization of the B cell receptor repertoire in melanoma2
Why do patients with cancer die?2
Tumour-infiltrating B cells: immunological mechanisms, clinical impact and therapeutic opportunities2
The advent of immune stimulating CAFs in cancer2
Tryptophan metabolite improves PDAC response rates and survival2
NET-working under stress2
Cancer progression through the lens of age-induced metabolic reprogramming2
Identification, functional insights and therapeutic targeting of EMT tumour states2
Advancing cancer research via comparative oncology2
Oncologists must act to manage cancer detected through prenatal screening2
Nanotherapy: targeting the tumour microenvironment2
Unlocking the potential of FinnGen to advance cancer research2
Investigating immune cells across time in vivo2
Eph receptors and ephrins in cancer progression2
Cancers make their own luck: theories of cancer origins2
Translating p53-based therapies for cancer into the clinic2
Challenging the status quo to improve the translational potential of preclinical oncology studies2
Author Correction: The importance of 3D fibre architecture in cancer and implications for biomaterial model design2
Circular RNA in cancer2
Mastering the use of cellular barcoding to explore cancer heterogeneity2
Expanding oesophageal cancer research and care in eastern Africa2
CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy2
Gender and sex interactions are intrinsic components of cancer phenotypes2
Unlocking the potential of urine-based liquid biopsy through improved reporting and standardization2
Towards targeting transposable elements for cancer therapy2
STAT proteins in cancer: orchestration of metabolism2
Tumour-derived d-2HG blocks T cell cytotoxicity2
How cancer reduces motivation2
Pressing defence2
Tracking genome evolution following p53 inactivation2
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