Nature Cancer

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(The median citation count of Nature Cancer is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Enhancing childhood cancer targetability710
Shooting for multiplexed pathology with Orion537
Evaluating progesterone receptor agonist megestrol plus letrozole for women with early-stage estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer: the window-of-opportunity, randomized, phase 2b, PIONEER trial508
Landscape of prostate-specific membrane antigen heterogeneity and regulation in AR-positive and AR-negative metastatic prostate cancer411
An oncolytic circular RNA therapy373
Considering molecular alterations as pan-cancer tissue-agnostic targets330
A low-coverage liquid biopsy for lung cancer325
Author Correction: Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction308
Author Correction: Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling291
Author Correction: IL-17A-secreting γδ T cells promote resistance to CDK4/CDK6 inhibitors in HR+HER2− breast cancer via CX3CR1+ macrophages271
Author Correction: RIOK1 phase separation restricts PTEN translation via stress granules activating tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma248
Evolutionary trajectories of IDH-mutant astrocytoma identify molecular grading markers related to cell cycling208
The cGAS–STING pathway and cancer193
ZFP281 drives a mesenchymal-like dormancy program in early disseminated breast cancer cells that prevents metastatic outgrowth in the lung181
Breast cancer cells survive chemotherapy by activating targetable immune-modulatory programs characterized by PD-L1 or CD80180
The proteasome regulator PSME4 modulates proteasome activity and antigen diversity to abrogate antitumor immunity in NSCLC156
Repeated peripheral infusions of anti-EGFRvIII CAR T cells in combination with pembrolizumab show no efficacy in glioblastoma: a phase 1 trial153
MALAT1 protects dormant tumor cells from immune elimination148
A macrophage-activated abscopal effect147
Breaking frontiers with multidisciplinary cancer research140
PARP11 interfer(on)es with CAR T cell efficacy136
Gut decisions in CAR T cell therapy135
Single-cell transcriptomic landscape deciphers olfactory neuroblastoma subtypes and intra-tumoral heterogeneity132
A single-cell map of dynamic chromatin landscapes of immune cells in renal cell carcinoma131
Different niches for stem cells carrying the same oncogenic driver affect pathogenesis and therapy response in myeloproliferative neoplasms129
Palmitate oxidation drives a pro-metastatic post-translational modification123
Expanding the options for KRAS inhibition123
crossNN is an explainable framework for cross-platform DNA methylation-based classification of tumors119
Reply to: Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor119
IKAROS and MENIN coordinate therapeutically actionable leukemogenic gene expression in MLL-r acute myeloid leukemia117
Advancing therapeutics in small-cell lung cancer115
The importance of being generous115
Shaping the microenvironment in peritoneal metastases113
A targetable type III immune response with increase of IL-17A expressing CD4+ T cells is associated with immunotherapy-induced toxicity in melanoma108
Bone marrow progenitor-like cells against leukemia cure108
Stress granules shape metabolic reprogramming and drug resistance108
Targeting PRMT9-mediated arginine methylation suppresses cancer stem cell maintenance and elicits cGAS-mediated anticancer immunity107
Impact of context-dependent autophagy states on tumor progression107
A molecular glue halts RAS–MAPK signaling106
Determinants of resistance and response to melanoma therapy106
Adoptively transferred tumor-specific IL-9-producing cytotoxic CD8+ T cells activate host CD4+ T cells to control tumors with antigen loss106
Innate immunity drives epithelial cell plasticity during prostate tumor formation105
Sarcoma ecotypes determine immunotherapy benefit104
Antibody avidity meets multiple myeloma103
A tumor-derived metabolite primes the leptomeningeal pre-metastatic niche103
ALK peptide vaccination restores the immunogenicity of ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer99
Thriving in diverse ecosystems99
Author Correction: Interleukin 17 signaling supports clinical benefit of dual CTLA-4 and PD-1 checkpoint inhibition in melanoma98
Evolving landscape of nasopharyngeal carcinoma therapy95
Cancer-derived mitochondria fuel fibroblasts to become pro-tumorigenic94
Key insights from ESMO Congress 202592
Sex-specific gut microbiota and neutrophil senescence in bladder cancer91
Inflammation meets translation in AML91
A comeback for checkpoint inhibition in multiple myeloma89
SCRN1 confers hepatocellular carcinoma resistance to ferroptosis by stabilizing GPX4 via STK38-mediated phosphorylation88
Cycling back to folate metabolism in cancer86
Proteogenomic landscape of human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in an Asian population reveals tumor cell-enriched and immune-rich subtypes84
Circadian regulation of cancer stem cells and the tumor microenvironment during metastasis82
Integrative single-cell analysis of human colorectal cancer reveals patient stratification with distinct immune evasion mechanisms82
Discovery of potent and selective HER2 inhibitors with efficacy against HER2 exon 20 insertion-driven tumors, which preserve wild-type EGFR signaling82
Loss of the receptors ER, PR and HER2 promotes USP15-dependent stabilization of PARP1 in triple-negative breast cancer81
INPP5A phosphatase is a synthetic lethal target in GNAQ and GNA11-mutant melanomas80
Direct and selective pharmacological disruption of the YAP–TEAD interface by IAG933 inhibits Hippo-dependent and RAS–MAPK-altered cancers80
Clinical implementation of artificial-intelligence-assisted detection of breast cancer metastases in sentinel lymph nodes: the CONFIDENT-B single-center, non-randomized clinical trial79
A multiomic atlas identifies a treatment-resistant, bone marrow progenitor-like cell population in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia79
Regulatory T cells play a crucial part in radio-immunotherapy resistance of brain tumors78
MCL1 inhibitor BRD-810 kills cancer cells while minimizing risk of cardiotoxicity78
Immunosuppressive dura-derived macrophages in leptomeningeal metastasis77
Radioligand cancer therapy comes to the fore77
CHD1 status drives divergent metabolic pathways in SPOP-mutant prostate cancer76
Multimodal data integration improves immunotherapy response prediction76
Dual inhibition of EGFR and PI3K with a single drug76
Author Correction: Ectopic JAK–STAT activation enables the transition to a stem-like and multilineage state conferring AR-targeted therapy resistance76
First-in-class ultralong-target-residence-time p38α inhibitors as a mitosis-targeted therapy for colorectal cancer75
Immunotargeting of a recurrent AML-specific neoantigen75
Building a translational cancer dependency map for The Cancer Genome Atlas74
Multiregion sampling of de novo metastatic prostate cancer reveals complex polyclonality and augments clinical genotyping74
Concurrent inhibition of tumor growth and metastasis by a lipidated nanophotosensitizer tracing and disabling tumor extracellular vesicles74
Efficacy of pembrolizumab and vorinostat combination in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinomas: a phase 2 basket trial74
A phase II study of talazoparib monotherapy in patients with wild-type BRCA1 and BRCA2 with a mutation in other homologous recombination genes73
How AI agents will change cancer research and oncology70
Differential chromatin accessibility and transcriptional dynamics define breast cancer subtypes and their lineages70
Selective targeting of malignant T cells70
PD-1 instructs a tumor-suppressive metabolic program that restricts glycolysis and restrains AP-1 activity in T cell lymphoma70
AKTing on XPO1 inhibition in AML69
Highlights from the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting69
The dopamine transporter antagonist vanoxerine inhibits G9a and suppresses cancer stem cell functions in colon tumors68
Protein-level mutant p53 reporters identify druggable rare precancerous clones in noncancerous tissues68
Regional delivery of hypoxia-responsive CAR T cells improves efficacy for solid tumors68
Bispecific chimeric T cell receptors tackle tumor heterogeneity68
BRD-810 is a highly selective MCL1 inhibitor with optimized in vivo clearance and robust efficacy in solid and hematological tumor models66
Single-cell analysis and functional characterization uncover the stem cell hierarchies and developmental origins of rhabdomyosarcoma66
Threonine fuels glioblastoma through YRDC-mediated codon-biased translational reprogramming65
Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling62
Advances in antibody-based therapy in oncology62
Single-cell analyses implicate ascites in remodeling the ecosystems of primary and metastatic tumors in ovarian cancer61
Single-cell meta-analyses reveal responses of tumor-reactive CXCL13+ T cells to immune-checkpoint blockade61
The pro-oncogenic noncanonical activity of a RAS•GTP:RanGAP1 complex facilitates nuclear protein export61
Anything to declare?60
The tumor microenvironment’s role in the response to immune checkpoint blockade60
Epigenetic plasticity in PDAC59
Metabolic symbiosis in pancreatic cancer58
An antisense RNA promotes breast cancer metastasis via upregulation of NQO158
Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer subtypes show differential macrophage functions57
Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor57
An unexpected career in cancer metabolism57
There are gremlins in prostate cancer57
In vivo macrophage engineering for renal cancer therapy56
P2RY2-AKT activation is a therapeutically actionable consequence of XPO1 inhibition in acute myeloid leukemia55
Author Correction: An inflammatory state remodels the immune microenvironment and improves risk stratification in acute myeloid leukemia55
Author Correction: Autotaxin–lysolipid signaling suppresses a CCL11–eosinophil axis to promote pancreatic cancer progression54
Author Correction: Acquired resistance to a GPRC5D-directed T-cell engager in multiple myeloma is mediated by genetic or epigenetic target inactivation54
Author Correction: Anti-CTLA-4 antibodies drive myeloid activation and reprogram the tumor microenvironment through FcγR engagement and type I interferon signaling54
Targeting ADAR1 with a small molecule for the treatment of prostate cancer53
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy marks a new era in oncology53
M-PACT leverages cell-free DNA methylomes to achieve robust classification of pediatric brain tumors52
Tumor evolution metrics predict recurrence beyond 10 years in locally advanced prostate cancer52
Innate immunity and the NF-κB pathway control prostate stem cell plasticity, reprogramming and tumor initiation52
Clonal origin of KMT2A wild-type lineage-switch leukemia following CAR-T cell and blinatumomab therapy52
Dual modulation of cytotoxic and checkpoint receptors tunes the efficacy of adoptive Delta One T cell therapy against colorectal cancer52
p53 at the crossroads of tumor immunity51
Myeloma evades T cell-engaging therapies50
Sarcoma microenvironment cell states and ecosystems are associated with prognosis and predict response to immunotherapy50
A single-cell atlas of glioblastoma evolution under therapy reveals cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets50
Clinical and translational attributes of immune-related adverse events49
Understanding the biology of lung cancer brain metastases49
Mitochondrial DNA mutation enhances sensitivity to immunotherapy in melanoma49
Predictive value of early PSMA upregulation for the response to enzalutamide ± 177Lu-PSMA-617 in poor-risk, metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer: substudy of the randomized, phase 2 ENZA-p49
Suvemcitug plus chemotherapy in women with platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer: the SCORES randomized, double-blinded, phase 3 trial48
Glutaminase inhibition in combination with azacytidine in myelodysplastic syndromes: a phase 1b/2 clinical trial and correlative analyses48
Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction48
Author Correction: Loss of MAT2A compromises methionine metabolism and represents a vulnerability in H3K27M mutant glioma by modulating the epigenome48
CD8+ T cell killing of MHC class I–deficient tumors47
A reversible SRC-relayed COX2 inflammatory program drives resistance to BRAF and EGFR inhibition in BRAFV600E colorectal tumors47
Targeting PARP11 to avert immunosuppression and improve CAR T therapy in solid tumors46
CAR T cell therapy: looking back and looking forward46
UnitedMet harnesses RNA–metabolite covariation to impute metabolite levels in clinical samples46
Masking T cell engagers mitigates on-target off-tumor activity46
A randomized, non-comparative phase 2 study of neoadjuvant immune-checkpoint blockade in retroperitoneal dedifferentiated liposarcoma and extremity/truncal undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma45
PD-L2 expression in senescent cancer cells limits tumor clearance after chemotherapy44
Overcoming extracellular vesicle-mediated fratricide improves CAR T cell treatment against solid tumors43
Multiomics in primary and metastatic breast tumors from the AURORA US network finds microenvironment and epigenetic drivers of metastasis43
Unique structural configuration of EV-DNA primes Kupffer cell-mediated antitumor immunity to prevent metastatic progression42
CD103+ regulatory T cells underlie resistance to radio-immunotherapy and impair CD8+ T cell activation in glioblastoma42
Tumor-intrinsic sensitivity to the pro-apoptotic effects of IFN-γ is a major determinant of CD4+ CAR T-cell antitumor activity42
TIGIT and PD-L1 co-blockade promotes clonal expansion of multipotent, non-exhausted antitumor T cells by facilitating co-stimulation42
Tumor-associated macrophages restrict CD8+ T cell function through collagen deposition and metabolic reprogramming of the breast cancer microenvironment42
FLASH radiation reprograms lipid metabolism and macrophage immunity and sensitizes medulloblastoma to CAR-T cell therapy42
The meaning of impact41
Communicating with respect41
Global loss of promoter–enhancer connectivity and rebalancing of gene expression during early colorectal cancer carcinogenesis40
Radiopharma pipeline builds ahead of key data40
Efficacy and tolerability of neoadjuvant therapy with Talimogene laherparepvec in cutaneous basal cell carcinoma: a phase II trial (NeoBCC trial)39
Spatially resolved transcriptomics and graph-based deep learning improve accuracy of routine CNS tumor diagnostics39
Glucagon-like peptide-1 medicines and cancer39
Genomic and immune signatures predict clinical outcome in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma treated with immunotherapy regimens38
Near-infrared optogenetic engineering of bacteria for cancer therapy38
EZH2 inhibition remodels the inflammatory senescence-associated secretory phenotype to potentiate pancreatic cancer immune surveillance38
Cellular neighborhoods in cancer38
Insight from the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 202537
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia displays a distinct highly methylated genome37
Targeted inhibition of FBXL2 confers susceptibility of HER2-negative breast cancer to trastuzumab deruxtecan37
A 180 degree turn en route to crafting a scientific career that never goes stale37
Leveraging the potential for deintensification in cancer care37
CD4+ CAR T cells — more than helpers37
Commensal metabolite boosts chemotherapy36
Leptomeningeal metastatic cancer cells induce a permissive choroid plexus vasculature through extracellular-vesicle-derived 5-HIAA signaling36
SWIFT-seq enables comprehensive single-cell transcriptomic profiling of circulating tumor cells in multiple myeloma and its precursors36
Leveraging translational insights toward precision medicine approaches for brain metastases36
Disparities, aging and childhood cancer36
Tucatinib–trastuzumab–capecitabine for treatment of leptomeningeal metastasis in women with HER2+ breast cancer: TBCRC049 phase 2 study results36
Artificial intelligence for prostate cancer diagnostics36
Author Correction: Cytokine release syndrome-like serum responses after COVID-19 vaccination are frequent and clinically inapparent under cancer immunotherapy35
‘IL-2Rα-biased’ IL-2 for cancer immunotherapy35
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 trial35
Antibiotic-related dysbiosis in cancer immunotherapy: from preclinical insights to practice-changing evidence35
CDK10 inhibits innate sensing to constrain antitumor immunity34
Harnessing foundation models for digital pathology without re-training34
ISB 2001 trispecific T cell engager shows strong tumor cytotoxicity and overcomes immune escape mechanisms of multiple myeloma cells34
The aging lung reawakens dormant tumor cells34
Clinical outcomes with perioperative nivolumab by nodal status in patients with stage III resectable NSCLC: phase 3 CheckMate 77T exploratory analysis34
Targeting HIF-1 to treat AML34
Fibrotic tumors tune metabolism for immune evasion33
The rapidly evolving paradigm of neoadjuvant immunotherapy across cancer types32
Cytidine deaminases APOBEC3C and APOBEC3D promote DNA replication stress resistance in pancreatic cancer cells32
Context-dependent tumor-suppressive BMP signaling in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma regulates stemness through epigenetic regulation of CXXC531
Targeting the histone reader ZMYND8 inhibits antiandrogen-induced neuroendocrine tumor transdifferentiation of prostate cancer31
The growing threat of cyberwarfare in cancer healthcare30
Checkpoint blockade regulates T cell fate by supporting co-stimulation30
The landscape of T cell antigens for cancer immunotherapy30
Bicarbonate transport as a vulnerability in pancreatic cancer30
Integrative analysis of risk factors for immune-related adverse events of checkpoint blockade therapy in cancer30
CAR T cell therapy for multiple myeloma30
Not a generative AI–generated Editorial30
The two sides of the γδ T cell coin29
T cells lead the charge against solid tumors29
Checking immunotoxicity risks of checkpoint blockade29
Author Correction: Retargeted oncolytic viruses engineered to remodel the tumor microenvironment for glioblastoma immunotherapy29
Phenotypic diversity of T cells in human primary and metastatic brain tumors revealed by multiomic interrogation28
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
Imetelstat-mediated alterations in fatty acid metabolism to induce ferroptosis as a therapeutic strategy for acute myeloid leukemia28
Remodeling cyclophilin A to target KRAS28
Network-based assessment of HDAC6 activity predicts preclinical and clinical responses to the HDAC6 inhibitor ricolinostat in breast cancer28
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy enriches for drug-tolerant persisters in PDAC28
Radiotherapy in combination with CD47 blockade elicits a macrophage-mediated abscopal effect28
LncRNA Malat1 suppresses pyroptosis and T cell-mediated killing of incipient metastatic cells28
The editors’ point of view28
Tumor-specific cholinergic CD4+ T lymphocytes guide immunosurveillance of hepatocellular carcinoma28
Exploiting HLA-DR mismatches for CAR therapy in acute myeloid leukemia27
Characterization of cis-regulatory elements and functional variants in colorectal cancer using epigenomics and CRISPRi screenings27
The craft (and art) of scientific writing27
Mini colons to study cancer ex vivo27
Decoding TNBC architecture26
Neutrophils determine immunotherapy success26
European cancer research requires renewed urgency26
A designer peptide against the EAG2–Kvβ2 potassium channel targets the interaction of cancer cells and neurons to treat glioblastoma26
SIGLEC9 tips the myeloid balance in glioblastoma26
A roadmap of therapeutic strategies for patients with multiple myeloma26
A T cell receptor targeting a recurrent driver mutation in FLT3 mediates elimination of primary human acute myeloid leukemia in vivo26
Blocking methionine catabolism induces senescence and confers vulnerability to GSK3 inhibition in liver cancer25
Dual targeting of PI3Kγ and STING overcomes regulatory B cell- and myeloid cell-driven immune suppression in pancreatic cancer25
Hallmarks of artificial intelligence contributions to precision oncology25
Inferring early genetic progression in cancers with unobtainable premalignant disease24
An in vitro-transcribed circular RNA targets the mitochondrial inner membrane cardiolipin to ablate EIF4G2+/PTBP1+ pan-adenocarcinoma24
SOS1 inhibitor combinations overcome KRAS inhibitor resistance24
PD-1 defines a distinct, functional, tissue-adapted state in Vδ1+ T cells with implications for cancer immunotherapy24
Combination of pembrolizumab and radiotherapy induces systemic antitumor immune responses in immunologically cold non-small cell lung cancer24
Publisher Correction: TIGIT and PD-L1 co-blockade promotes clonal expansion of multipotent, non-exhausted antitumor T cells by facilitating co-stimulation24
Understanding inequities in precision oncology diagnostics24
Targeting TAK1 in microglia to treat CAR T cell neurotoxicity24
A Gremlin 1-expressing splenic niche cell population restrains chronic myeloid leukemia by antagonizing the BMP pathway24
Mind the GAP(43) for mitochondria transfer to glioblastomas23
CRTAM inhibition mitigates toxicity of immune checkpoint inhibitors without antitumor efficacy trade-off23
Starfish infers signatures of complex genomic rearrangements across human cancers23
Selective deficiency of mitochondrial respiratory complex I subunits Ndufs4/6 causes tumor immunogenicity23
Specific targeting of glioblastoma with an oncolytic virus expressing a cetuximab-CCL5 fusion protein via innate and adaptive immunity23
Glutamine analogs for pancreatic cancer therapy23
Somatic evolution of marine transmissible leukemias in the common cockle, Cerastoderma edule22
Charting the landscape of drug response and resistance with multiplexed ‘mosaic’ tumor models22
Multipotent lineage potential in B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is associated with distinct cellular origins and clinical features22
CD8+ T cells maintain killing of MHC-I-negative tumor cells through the NKG2D–NKG2DL axis22
Inhibition of ADAM9 promotes the selective degradation of KRAS and sensitizes pancreatic cancers to chemotherapy21
Integrated multiomic profiling of breast cancer in the Chinese population reveals patient stratification and therapeutic vulnerabilities21
Mesenchymal and adrenergic cell lineage states in neuroblastoma possess distinct immunogenic phenotypes21
KDM6B-mediated reprogramming of myeloid cells regulates the response to immunotherapy20
LORIS robustly predicts patient outcomes with immune checkpoint blockade therapy using common clinical, pathologic and genomic features20
The expanding palette of immunotherapy research20
An antibody–toxin conjugate enhances innate immune cell responses in tumors20
Felix Feng (1975–2024)20
Proteogenomic analysis of human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma20
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