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 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
Reply to: Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor119
crossNN is an explainable framework for cross-platform DNA methylation-based classification of tumors119
IKAROS and MENIN coordinate therapeutically actionable leukemogenic gene expression in MLL-r acute myeloid leukemia117
The importance of being generous115
Advancing therapeutics in small-cell lung cancer115
Shaping the microenvironment in peritoneal metastases113
Stress granules shape metabolic reprogramming and drug resistance108
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
Impact of context-dependent autophagy states on tumor progression107
Targeting PRMT9-mediated arginine methylation suppresses cancer stem cell maintenance and elicits cGAS-mediated anticancer immunity107
Adoptively transferred tumor-specific IL-9-producing cytotoxic CD8+ T cells activate host CD4+ T cells to control tumors with antigen loss106
A molecular glue halts RAS–MAPK signaling106
Determinants of resistance and response to melanoma therapy106
Innate immunity drives epithelial cell plasticity during prostate tumor formation105
Sarcoma ecotypes determine immunotherapy benefit104
A tumor-derived metabolite primes the leptomeningeal pre-metastatic niche103
Antibody avidity meets multiple myeloma103
Thriving in diverse ecosystems99
ALK peptide vaccination restores the immunogenicity of ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer99
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
Inflammation meets translation in AML91
Sex-specific gut microbiota and neutrophil senescence in bladder cancer91
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
Discovery of potent and selective HER2 inhibitors with efficacy against HER2 exon 20 insertion-driven tumors, which preserve wild-type EGFR signaling82
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
Loss of the receptors ER, PR and HER2 promotes USP15-dependent stabilization of PARP1 in triple-negative breast cancer81
Direct and selective pharmacological disruption of the YAP–TEAD interface by IAG933 inhibits Hippo-dependent and RAS–MAPK-altered cancers80
INPP5A phosphatase is a synthetic lethal target in GNAQ and GNA11-mutant melanomas80
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
MCL1 inhibitor BRD-810 kills cancer cells while minimizing risk of cardiotoxicity78
Regulatory T cells play a crucial part in radio-immunotherapy resistance of brain tumors78
Radioligand cancer therapy comes to the fore77
Immunosuppressive dura-derived macrophages in leptomeningeal metastasis77
Author Correction: Ectopic JAK–STAT activation enables the transition to a stem-like and multilineage state conferring AR-targeted therapy resistance76
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
First-in-class ultralong-target-residence-time p38α inhibitors as a mitosis-targeted therapy for colorectal cancer75
Immunotargeting of a recurrent AML-specific neoantigen75
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
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
A phase II study of talazoparib monotherapy in patients with wild-type BRCA1 and BRCA2 with a mutation in other homologous recombination genes73
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
How AI agents will change cancer research and oncology70
Highlights from the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting69
AKTing on XPO1 inhibition in AML69
Bispecific chimeric T cell receptors tackle tumor heterogeneity68
The dopamine transporter antagonist vanoxerine inhibits G9a and suppresses cancer stem cell functions in colon tumors68
Regional delivery of hypoxia-responsive CAR T cells improves efficacy for solid tumors68
Protein-level mutant p53 reporters identify druggable rare precancerous clones in noncancerous tissues68
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
The pro-oncogenic noncanonical activity of a RAS•GTP:RanGAP1 complex facilitates nuclear protein export61
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 tumor microenvironment’s role in the response to immune checkpoint blockade60
Anything to declare?60
Epigenetic plasticity in PDAC59
An antisense RNA promotes breast cancer metastasis via upregulation of NQO158
Metabolic symbiosis in pancreatic cancer58
There are gremlins in prostate cancer57
Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer subtypes show differential macrophage functions57
Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor57
An unexpected career in cancer metabolism57
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: Anti-CTLA-4 antibodies drive myeloid activation and reprogram the tumor microenvironment through FcγR engagement and type I interferon signaling54
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
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy marks a new era in oncology53
Targeting ADAR1 with a small molecule for the treatment of prostate cancer53
Dual modulation of cytotoxic and checkpoint receptors tunes the efficacy of adoptive Delta One T cell therapy against colorectal cancer52
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
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
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
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
Author Correction: Loss of MAT2A compromises methionine metabolism and represents a vulnerability in H3K27M mutant glioma by modulating the epigenome48
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
A reversible SRC-relayed COX2 inflammatory program drives resistance to BRAF and EGFR inhibition in BRAFV600E colorectal tumors47
CD8+ T cell killing of MHC class I–deficient tumors47
Masking T cell engagers mitigates on-target off-tumor activity46
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
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
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
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
Communicating with respect41
The meaning of impact41
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
Leveraging the potential for deintensification in cancer care37
CD4+ CAR T cells — more than helpers37
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
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
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
Antibiotic-related dysbiosis in cancer immunotherapy: from preclinical insights to practice-changing evidence35
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
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
CDK10 inhibits innate sensing to constrain antitumor immunity34
Harnessing foundation models for digital pathology without re-training34
Fibrotic tumors tune metabolism for immune evasion33
Cytidine deaminases APOBEC3C and APOBEC3D promote DNA replication stress resistance in pancreatic cancer cells32
The rapidly evolving paradigm of neoadjuvant immunotherapy across cancer types32
Targeting the histone reader ZMYND8 inhibits antiandrogen-induced neuroendocrine tumor transdifferentiation of prostate cancer31
Context-dependent tumor-suppressive BMP signaling in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma regulates stemness through epigenetic regulation of CXXC531
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 growing threat of cyberwarfare in cancer healthcare30
Checkpoint blockade regulates T cell fate by supporting co-stimulation30
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
The two sides of the γδ T cell coin29
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