Nature Reviews Cancer

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Reviews Cancer is 1. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Linking pancreatic renewal and cancer initiation1473
Computing brain metastasis impact1233
Digging for treasures in the tumour interactome1045
INVADEseq to study the intratumoural microbiota at host single-cell resolution886
An inhospitable site541
Convergent inducers and effectors of T cell paralysis in the tumour microenvironment507
Fructose takes a detour to feed cancer471
Combinatorial strategies to target RAS-driven cancers397
Artificial intelligence in cancer research, diagnosis and therapy347
Emerging strategies to investigate the biology of early cancer337
Oncofetal reprogramming in tumour development and progression336
Mapping the prostate cell family tree318
How medical anthropology can contribute to cancer research290
Author Correction: Fighting rare cancers: lessons from fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma288
Connie J. Eaves (1944–2024)281
The recruitment of metastasis-associated monocytes278
Antihistamines boost immunotherapy266
Fighting cancer with fat262
The role of CRAF in cancer progression: from molecular mechanisms to precision therapies256
Tertiary lymphoid structures as hubs of antitumour immunity250
Reply to ‘Heterogeneity of TP53 mutations necessitates differentiation with p53-rescue therapies’242
Targeting transcription cycles in cancer238
Beyond genetics: driving cancer with the tumour microenvironment behind the wheel229
Translating premalignant biology to accelerate non-small-cell lung cancer interception225
Context-dependent functions of pattern recognition receptors in cancer220
Epithelial and stromal co-evolution and complicity in pancreatic cancer211
No mutation, tumour initiation207
Impersonating neurons206
Under pressure204
Nanoreceptors take down mutant p53202
Defining a ‘cells to society’ research framework for appendiceal tumours192
Gut microbes produce novel genotoxic metabolites179
Tumour EVPs disrupt liver function176
Removing barriers to address sex differences in anticancer drug toxicity169
Dendritic cells rise and shine169
Persistence is key167
Thelpers? More like Ttroublemakers166
Moonlighting functions of glucose metabolic enzymes and metabolites in cancer165
How chemokines organize the tumour microenvironment165
AACR 2025160
Measuring HLA disruption using MHC Hammer158
Tumour–host interactions through the lens of Drosophila156
Remodelling of the tumour microenvironment by the kallikrein-related peptidases150
3D bioprinted cancer models: from basic biology to drug development147
Natural killer cells in antitumour adoptive cell immunotherapy147
Points of entry for tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes146
B-ring sterols to the rescue144
Bone voyage: immune crosstalk sets sail139
In-depth organoid profiling of pancreatic cancer138
Identifying spatial cellular structures with SPACE-GM138
Visualizing intratumoural heterogeneity with EpicMIBI137
Un-Fair Skin: racial disparities in acral melanoma research133
The plasticity of mRNA translation during cancer progression and therapy resistance131
Linking cell mechanical memory and cancer metastasis120
The path to leptomeningeal metastasis119
Metabolic interplays between the tumour and the host shape the tumour macroenvironment118
Leveraging the replication stress response to optimize cancer therapy115
Regulatory T cells in the tumour microenvironment108
In situ decellularization of tissues to resolve the tumour-associated matrix104
Dynamics and specificities of T cells in cancer immunotherapy104
Deciphering the cancer genome and epigenome100
Understanding and addressing race disparities in childhood cancer outcomes100
Encoding spatial tumour dynamics with Starfysh93
Taming TAMs in brain metastases91
The link between vitamin D and prostate cancer89
Race influences the tumour microbiome89
Don’t blame the messenger: lessons learned for cancer mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic89
Polygenic scores in cancer88
Cancer nanomedicine87
Targeted protein degradation for cancer therapy87
Acetyl-CoA metabolism in cancer87
RNA splicing dysregulation and the hallmarks of cancer86
Z-nucleic acids give immunotherapy a boost84
Local CAR manufacturing84
Author Correction: Antibody-based proteomics: fast-tracking molecular diagnostics in oncology83
Parity modulates epithelial–immune cell communication82
Right ON target: a new RAS-GTP inhibitor82
Prime editing GEMMs to model cancer mutations79
A trojan horse to target spliceosome mutant cells79
Androgen receptor signalling in non-prostatic malignancies: challenges and opportunities78
Expanding the utility of precision oncology knowledge bases78
Integrative medicine in oncology: redefining the standard of care77
Defining precancer: a grand challenge for the cancer community76
NOTUM-mediated stem cell competition in CRC75
Chromothripsis in cancer75
Targeting ferroptosis as a vulnerability in cancer71
Tertiary lymphoid structures in anticancer immunity71
Starting a new job68
Glycogen condensates drive tumorigenesis by trapping Hippo kinases67
Quantum probes in cancer research65
Functional lineage tracing to study the clonal evolution of therapy resistance64
Neutrophils: a roadblock for immunotherapy61
Revealing genomic secrets of archival FFPE samples59
In vivo labelling system to study cell neighbourhoods59
New pathogen on the block58
Judith Campisi (1948–2024)58
Recent advances in therapeutic cancer vaccines56
Inferring cancer metabolism from gene-expression data56
The present and future of the Cancer Dependency Map55
Immune-checkpoint inhibitor-mediated myocarditis: CTLA4, PD1 and LAG3 in the heart53
Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data52
Cell states can give tumorigenesis a head start46
Carcinogenesis at single-cell resolution46
Microbiota links to immunotherapy toxicity45
Bidirectional CART.BiTE cells bring new hope44
Patient-derived organoids unveil sarcoma vulnerabilities43
Epigenomic heterogeneity as a source of tumour evolution43
Global post-mortem tissue donation programmes to accelerate cancer research41
Transfer RNAs as dynamic and critical regulators of cancer progression39
Evolution and progression of Barrett’s oesophagus to oesophageal cancer38
A timeline of tumour-associated macrophage biology38
Developing dietary interventions as therapy for cancer38
Traject3d for studying 3D cellular heterogeneity35
Author Correction: Integrative medicine in oncology: redefining the standard of care33
We cannot ignore the cancer risks of wildfires32
Neuro-immune cross-talk in cancer32
Guardrails for the use of generalist AI in cancer care31
Tissue clearing to examine tumour complexity in three dimensions30
Harnessing the influenza virus to fight cancer30
Digitally enhanced Raman spectroscopy29
mRNA-based cancer therapeutics28
Fcγ receptors and immunomodulatory antibodies in cancer25
Targeting cancer cell dormancy25
The immunological and metabolic landscape in primary and metastatic liver cancer24
Structural variations in cancer and the 3D genome24
The role of ROS in tumour development and progression23
Integrating microbiomics in cancer management23
Immunogenic cell death in cancer: targeting necroptosis to induce antitumour immunity23
AACR 202422
Frozen silicified vaccines22
CAFs promote CRPC21
Ethnically diverse cancer cell lines for drug testing19
Decoding the functional impact of the cancer genome through protein–protein interactions18
Next-generation epidemiologic cohorts for cancer aetiology17
Male melanoma comes of age17
The role of eIF4F-driven mRNA translation in regulating the tumour microenvironment16
EMT in chemoresistance16
Modelling and deciphering tumour metabolism in CRISPR screens16
Mechanisms driving the immunoregulatory function of cancer cells15
Fungi in cancer: not such a ‘fun-guy’15
Key role for microbiota in gut–bone crosstalk14
Advances in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma14
Inflammatory neutrophils14
Silent mutations make noise14
Disconnecting multicellular networks in brain tumours13
Stabilizing the mood of tumours13
Author Correction: Learning to distinguish progressive and non-progressive ductal carcinoma in situ13
Decoding the basis of histological variation in human cancer13
Multiomics-guided cellular immunotherapies12
Deep tissue imaging of cancer in the infrared12
Advances in translational research of the rare cancer type adrenocortical carcinoma12
Stemness in solid malignancies: coping with immune attack11
Energizing leukaemia11
Exploiting senescence for the treatment of cancer11
Glioblastomas remodel neural circuits10
Therapeutic resistance to anti-oestrogen therapy in breast cancer10
Air pollution promotes tumorigenesis through pre-existing oncogenic mutations10
Enhanced transposable elements10
Mapping out mitochondria9
Black voices in cancer research and oncology8
Too much of a good thing8
Addressing the gaps in cancer screening for LGBTQ+ individuals8
Androgen receptor activation for breast cancer therapy8
Overcoming heterogeneity with 3D whole-tumour sampling7
Aristolochic acid-associated cancers: a public health risk in need of global action7
Fungi in cancer7
Limiting bias in AI models for improved and equitable cancer care7
Big data in basic and translational cancer research6
Pathogenesis of cancers derived from thyroid follicular cells6
Genomic and fragmentomic landscapes of cell-free DNA for early cancer detection6
Nucleotide metabolism: a pan-cancer metabolic dependency5
Targeting sex steroid biosynthesis for breast and prostate cancer therapy5
Breast milk for breast cancer detection5
Cancer organoids 2.0: modelling the complexity of the tumour immune microenvironment5
Proximity labelling to study chromatin interactomes5
Polyamines in cancer: integrating organismal metabolism and antitumour immunity4
Feeding latent brain metastasis4
Intercepting gastric cancer4
The fibroinflammatory response in cancer4
Metabolic mechanisms of medulloblastoma metastasis4
Hubs of transcriptional activity4
Defining and using immune archetypes to classify and treat cancer4
Understanding tumour endothelial cell heterogeneity and function from single-cell omics4
Epigenetic memory4
Conventional chemotherapy: millions of cures, unresolved therapeutic index4
Tumour avatars to model patients’ responses to immunotherapy4
Obesity as a promoter in BRCA mutation carriers4
Small speckles, big impact4
scAtlasVAE: a deep learning framework for generating a human CD8+ T cell atlas3
Lymphatic vessels in the age of cancer immunotherapy3
Exploiting temporal aspects of cancer immunotherapy3
Towards cancer equity via patient outreach3
Studying extrachromosomal DNA with the ecTag method3
Multiplex protein imaging in tumour biology3
Fighting rare cancers: lessons from fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma3
Tracing the evolutionary history of breast cancer3
Protection against tumour formation3
A machine learning toolkit for subtyping cancer in existing and new datasets3
Metabolic networks in mutant KRAS-driven tumours: tissue specificities and the microenvironment3
Hallmarks of sex bias in immuno-oncology: mechanisms and therapeutic implications3
VIBRANT: mapping cell phenotypes using vibrational spectroscopy3
Ageing lipids map melanoma’s journey2
The dynamic role of platelets in cancer progression and their therapeutic implications2
Taking the path of most resistance2
Hidden epithelial subtypes refine colorectal cancer classification2
Oncologists must act to manage cancer detected through prenatal screening2
The BMP pathway could curb cachexia2
Epigenetic lesions drive gliomagenesis2
Expanding oesophageal cancer research and care in eastern Africa2
Non-coding driver mutations in human cancer2
Cancer’s sensory experience2
Heard immunity in CAR T cells2
Harnessing multimodal data integration to advance precision oncology2
Sex affects cancer genomes2
Enhancing cellular immunotherapies in cancer by engineering selective therapeutic resistance2
Presenting fibroblasts2
Stromal cells drive tumorigenesis in BRCA1 mutation carriers2
Targeting the tumour’s little helpers2
Author Correction: The importance of 3D fibre architecture in cancer and implications for biomaterial model design2
Advancing cancer research via comparative oncology2
Targeting aberrant splicing2
PDX models for functional precision oncology and discovery science2
Phosphoinositide kinases in cancer: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities2
Lactate gives a sour taste2
Bringing community to our pages2
Targeting the DNA damage response in immuno-oncology: developments and opportunities2
In Polϴ position2
Naughty neutrophils2
How protons pave the way to aggressive cancers2
Rusting away with age2
Mastering the use of cellular barcoding to explore cancer heterogeneity2
Taking a detour2
Smokeless tobacco and cigarette smoking: chemical mechanisms and cancer prevention2
The rhythm of the night1
Cholesterol-fuelled glioblastoma1
CAF-induced physical constraints controlling T cell state and localization in solid tumours1
Publisher Correction: Programmed death ligand 1 signals in cancer cells1
Characterization of the B cell receptor repertoire in melanoma1
Revisiting the TGFβ paradox: insights from HPV-driven cancer and the DNA damage response1
Gasdermin E shields PDAC1
Reflecting on 20 years of progress1
Tumour-infiltrating B cells: immunological mechanisms, clinical impact and therapeutic opportunities1
Programming immune escape1
Approaching cancer during pregnancy1
Switching on cancer survival mechanisms1
Lifestyle interventions for cancer survivors1
Extrachromosomal DNA in cancer1
Epigenetic remodelling drives fibroid development1
Investigating immune cells across time in vivo1
Cancer burden in low-income and middle-income countries1
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