Nature Cancer

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Cancer is 28. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Outcompeting neighbors for intestinal cancer initiation508
Challenges and opportunities in training cancer researchers332
Disparities in cancer treatments across ancestral backgrounds322
Concurrent delivery of immune checkpoint blockade modulates T cell dynamics to enhance neoantigen vaccine-generated antitumor immunity317
Milestones in tumor vascularization and its therapeutic targeting282
The never-abating excitement for targeted therapies272
Targeting network circuitry in glioma263
Ongoing replication stress tolerance and clonal T cell responses distinguish liver and lung recurrence and outcomes in pancreatic cancer250
Five years of Nature Cancer243
Breaking frontiers with multidisciplinary cancer research241
Targeting T cell checkpoints and myeloid suppressor cells is effective in pancreatic cancer232
CRC malignancy continuum228
Circumventing the roadblocks to targeting EGFR-driven cancers226
Untangling the threads of immunotherapy research225
Ex vivo drug response heterogeneity reveals personalized therapeutic strategies for patients with multiple myeloma185
Diverse routes to melanoma metastasis and ICI resistance183
Small-molecule inhibition of kinesin KIF18A reveals a mitotic vulnerability enriched in chromosomally unstable cancers181
The expanding success of T cell-engaging bispecific antibodies174
KDM6B-mediated reprogramming of myeloid cells regulates the response to immunotherapy172
Gut decisions in CAR T cell therapy160
A low-coverage liquid biopsy for lung cancer159
The expanding palette of immunotherapy research153
Proteogenomic analysis of human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma148
Master kinases extracted from proteogenomic networks in glioblastoma drive cancer subtypes141
Cancer models for reverse and forward translation138
Mitochondrial DNA mutation enhances sensitivity to immunotherapy in melanoma135
An autologous antigen-agnostic dendritic cell therapy that forgoes antigen loading132
Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction131
Outcomes of COVID-19 and risk factors in patients with cancer122
A new sophistication for breast cancer PDXs122
Author Correction: The Molecular Tumor Board Portal supports clinical decisions and automated reporting for precision oncology121
Ovarian cancer through a multi-modal lens119
Author Correction: Loss of MAT2A compromises methionine metabolism and represents a vulnerability in H3K27M mutant glioma by modulating the epigenome117
PARP11 interfer(on)es with CAR T cell efficacy114
Enhancing childhood cancer targetability111
SULT1A1-dependent sulfonation of alkylators is a lineage-dependent vulnerability of liver cancers110
Masking T cell engagers mitigates on-target off-tumor activity102
A reversible SRC-relayed COX2 inflammatory program drives resistance to BRAF and EGFR inhibition in BRAFV600E colorectal tumors99
Harnessing immune checkpoint trial data in pediatric cancer99
c-Kit signaling potentiates CAR T cell efficacy in solid tumors by CD28- and IL-2-independent co-stimulation98
IL-2Rα-biased agonist enhances antitumor immunity by invigorating tumor-infiltrating CD25+CD8+ T cells97
Shooting for multiplexed pathology with Orion97
Multimodal immunogenomic biomarker analysis of tumors from pediatric patients enrolled to a phase 1-2 study of single-agent atezolizumab97
Jeffrey W. Pollard (1950–2023)96
Considering molecular alterations as pan-cancer tissue-agnostic targets95
The artificial intelligence-based model ANORAK improves histopathological grading of lung adenocarcinoma94
An oncolytic circular RNA therapy93
Author Correction: Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction93
Endothelium directs fat remodeling in cachexia92
Harnessing oncology real-world data with AI89
Improving long-term outcomes in pediatric low-grade glioma83
Enhanced precision in immunotherapy82
Author Correction: Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling82
Transcription and DNA replication collisions lead to large tandem duplications and expose targetable therapeutic vulnerabilities in cancer81
Author Correction: Clinical implementation of artificial-intelligence-assisted detection of breast cancer metastases in sentinel lymph nodes: the CONFIDENT-B single-center, non-randomized clinical tri81
Single-cell transcriptomic landscape deciphers olfactory neuroblastoma subtypes and intra-tumoral heterogeneity81
Evolving cell states and oncogenic drivers during the progression of IDH-mutant gliomas79
Unique structural configuration of EV-DNA primes Kupffer cell-mediated antitumor immunity to prevent metastatic progression79
A platform for continuous learning in oncology78
A machine learning model for ranking candidate HLA class I neoantigens based on known neoepitopes from multiple human tumor types78
Multi-omic profiling of peritoneal metastases in gastric cancer identifies molecular subtypes and therapeutic vulnerabilities77
Author Correction: Sonic hedgehog accelerates DNA replication to cause replication stress promoting cancer initiation in medulloblastoma75
2-HG modulates glioma macrophages via Trp metabolism75
TNF-α-producing macrophages determine subtype identity and prognosis via AP1 enhancer reprogramming in pancreatic cancer75
Chemotherapy induces canalization of cell state in childhood B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia73
Author Correction: Fatty acid synthesis is required for breast cancer brain metastasis73
Alzheimer’s drug turns macrophages against cancer72
Hitting the target in HER2 mutant cancers71
Impaired immune responses in blood cancers improved by third COVID-19 vaccine dose71
JAK inhibition shows two faces in prostate cancer71
Author Correction: The immuno-oncological challenge of COVID-1971
Two isoleucyl tRNAs that decode synonymous codons divergently regulate breast cancer metastatic growth by controlling translation of proliferation-regulating genes70
Targeting both death and paracaspase domains of MALT1 with antisense oligonucleotides overcomes resistance to immune-checkpoint inhibitors69
CAR T cell therapy: looking back and looking forward69
Integrative proteogenomic profiling of high-risk prostate cancer samples from Chinese patients indicates metabolic vulnerabilities and diagnostic biomarkers68
Autotaxin–lysolipid signaling suppresses a CCL11–eosinophil axis to promote pancreatic cancer progression68
PD-L2 expression in senescent cancer cells limits tumor clearance after chemotherapy68
PRMT9 inhibition sparks immune responses in AML67
Different niches for stem cells carrying the same oncogenic driver affect pathogenesis and therapy response in myeloproliferative neoplasms66
CD8+ T cell killing of MHC class I–deficient tumors66
The moving target of cancer cell plasticity65
Avoiding CAR-NK cell fratricide65
Targeting PARP11 to avert immunosuppression and improve CAR T therapy in solid tumors65
2022 through the eyes of the editors64
The 2022 generation63
Associations of seven measures of biological age acceleration with frailty and all-cause mortality among adult survivors of childhood cancer in the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort63
TRIM28-dependent developmental heterogeneity determines cancer susceptibility through distinct epigenetic states62
Immunological sex differences in glioblastoma61
Understanding and overcoming tumor heterogeneity in metastatic breast cancer treatment61
Functional antibody and T cell immunity following SARS-CoV-2 infection, including by variants of concern, in patients with cancer: the CAPTURE study59
Multiomics in primary and metastatic breast tumors from the AURORA US network finds microenvironment and epigenetic drivers of metastasis59
Negative trade-off between neoantigen repertoire breadth and the specificity of HLA-I molecules shapes antitumor immunity58
Structural variants shape driver combinations and outcomes in pediatric high-grade glioma58
A single-cell map of dynamic chromatin landscapes of immune cells in renal cell carcinoma58
Acquired resistance to a GPRC5D-directed T-cell engager in multiple myeloma is mediated by genetic or epigenetic target inactivation57
γδ T cells as critical anti-tumor immune effectors57
MALAT1 protects dormant tumor cells from immune elimination57
METTL16 antagonizes MRE11-mediated DNA end resection and confers synthetic lethality to PARP inhibition in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma56
Bispecific antibodies increase the therapeutic window of CD40 agonists through selective dendritic cell targeting56
Fatty acid synthesis is required for breast cancer brain metastasis56
A single inhibitor for all KRAS mutations55
The current landscape of immunotherapy for pediatric brain tumors55
CD103+ regulatory T cells underlie resistance to radio-immunotherapy and impair CD8+ T cell activation in glioblastoma55
Repeated peripheral infusions of anti-EGFRvIII CAR T cells in combination with pembrolizumab show no efficacy in glioblastoma: a phase 1 trial55
Scribble mis-localization induces adaptive resistance to KRAS G12C inhibitors through feedback activation of MAPK signaling mediated by YAP-induced MRAS54
A randomized, non-comparative phase 2 study of neoadjuvant immune-checkpoint blockade in retroperitoneal dedifferentiated liposarcoma and extremity/truncal undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma54
Clinical and translational advances in ovarian cancer therapy54
Microbiome dysbiosis, neutrophil recruitment and mesenchymal transition of mesothelial cells promotes peritoneal metastasis of colorectal cancer54
FLASH radiation reprograms lipid metabolism and macrophage immunity and sensitizes medulloblastoma to CAR-T cell therapy54
Engineered bacteria for near-infrared light-inducible expression of cancer therapeutics53
TIGIT and PD-L1 co-blockade promotes clonal expansion of multipotent, non-exhausted antitumor T cells by facilitating co-stimulation53
ZFP281 drives a mesenchymal-like dormancy program in early disseminated breast cancer cells that prevents metastatic outgrowth in the lung52
The proteasome regulator PSME4 modulates proteasome activity and antigen diversity to abrogate antitumor immunity in NSCLC51
Temporal single-cell tracing reveals clonal revival and expansion of precursor exhausted T cells during anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer51
Glutaminase inhibition in combination with azacytidine in myelodysplastic syndromes: a phase 1b/2 clinical trial and correlative analyses51
Overcoming therapy resistance in EGFR-mutant lung cancer51
Autologous HER2-specific CAR T cells after lymphodepletion for advanced sarcoma: a phase 1 trial50
Phosphate dysregulation via the XPR1–KIDINS220 protein complex is a therapeutic vulnerability in ovarian cancer50
Publisher Correction: Circadian regulation of cancer stem cells and the tumor microenvironment during metastasis48
An antibody–toxin conjugate enhances innate immune cell responses in tumors48
Epigenetic targeted therapy of stabilized BAP1 in ASXL1 gain-of-function mutated leukemia46
Spatial analysis reveals targetable macrophage-mediated mechanisms of immune evasion in hepatocellular carcinoma minimal residual disease46
Centuries of genome instability and evolution in soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria, bivalve transmissible neoplasia46
γδ T cell dichotomy with opposing cytotoxic and wound healing functions in human solid tumors46
Landscape of prostate-specific membrane antigen heterogeneity and regulation in AR-positive and AR-negative metastatic prostate cancer45
cfDNA methylome profiling for detection and subtyping of small cell lung cancers45
The Akt/mTOR and MNK/eIF4E pathways rewire the prostate cancer translatome to secrete HGF, SPP1 and BGN and recruit suppressive myeloid cells45
Breast cancer cells survive chemotherapy by activating targetable immune-modulatory programs characterized by PD-L1 or CD8045
Radiation-activated secretory proteins of Scgb1a1+ club cells increase the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade in lung cancer45
Low neoantigen expression and poor T-cell priming underlie early immune escape in colorectal cancer45
Tumor-associated macrophages restrict CD8+ T cell function through collagen deposition and metabolic reprogramming of the breast cancer microenvironment44
Tumor-intrinsic sensitivity to the pro-apoptotic effects of IFN-γ is a major determinant of CD4+ CAR T-cell antitumor activity44
A macrophage-activated abscopal effect43
Chronic liver disease enables gut Enterococcus faecalis colonization to promote liver carcinogenesis43
The cGAS–STING pathway and cancer43
Leveraging translational insights toward precision medicine approaches for brain metastases41
GAP43-dependent mitochondria transfer from astrocytes enhances glioblastoma tumorigenicity41
A PRC1–RNF2 knockout punch for cancer41
The present and future of PI3K inhibitors for cancer therapy41
The cornucopia of cancer biology41
CD4+ T cells in cancer41
Pulling the strings of tumor collagen40
A needed boost against COVID-19 in lymphoma40
An artificial intelligence framework integrating longitudinal electronic health records with real-world data enables continuous pan-cancer prognostication40
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia displays a distinct highly methylated genome40
Single-cell profiling to explore pancreatic cancer heterogeneity, plasticity and response to therapy39
Cancer cells resistant to immune checkpoint blockade acquire interferon-associated epigenetic memory to sustain T cell dysfunction39
Targeting T cell checkpoints 41BB and LAG3 and myeloid cell CXCR1/CXCR2 results in antitumor immunity and durable response in pancreatic cancer39
Potent high-avidity neutralizing antibodies and T cell responses after COVID-19 vaccination in individuals with B cell lymphoma and multiple myeloma39
Reply to: Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor38
Biocondensates fuel tumor immune evasion38
Reaching your destination can require a diversion37
Publisher Correction: Performance and effectiveness of hepatocellular carcinoma screening in individuals with HBsAg seropositivity in China: a multicenter prospective study37
Publisher Correction: Interim survival analysis of the randomized phase III GEMSTONE-302 trial: sugemalimab or placebo plus chemotherapy as first-line treatment for metastatic NSCLC37
Publisher Correction: A phase I/Ib trial and biological correlate analysis of neoadjuvant SBRT with single-dose durvalumab in HPV-unrelated locally advanced HNSCC36
Neoadjuvant gemcitabine–cisplatin plus tislelizumab in persons with resectable muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a multicenter, single-arm, phase 2 trial36
Lung endothelium exploits susceptible tumor cell states to instruct metastatic latency36
γδ T cells as unconventional targets of checkpoint blockade36
Coming home to roost36
Selenocysteine tRNA methylation promotes oxidative stress resistance in melanoma metastasis35
Vascular heterogeneity of tight junction Claudins guides organotropic metastasis35
Recapitulating the adenoma–carcinoma sequence by selection of four spontaneous oncogenic mutations in mismatch-repair-deficient human colon organoids35
Inhibition of ERα signaling induces lineage plasticity in vivo34
DePICting T cell–APC crosstalk in cancer34
A multiverse of BRCA vulnerabilities34
Bone marrow progenitor-like cells against leukemia cure34
Pembrolizumab in microsatellite-instability-high and mismatch-repair-deficient advanced solid tumors: updated results of the KEYNOTE-158 trial33
Spatially resolved transcriptomics and graph-based deep learning improve accuracy of routine CNS tumor diagnostics33
Finding the positive in triple-negative breast cancer33
Fatty acid synthesis enables brain metastasis33
Beating cancer one carbon at a time32
High connectivity in gliomas affects cognition and survival31
A dormancy mechanism limits metastasis of early spreading cancer cells31
Communicating with respect31
Leveraging the potential for deintensification in cancer care31
Palmitoylation of GPX4 via the targetable ZDHHC8 determines ferroptosis sensitivity and antitumor immunity30
Specific regulation of BACH1 by the hotspot mutant p53R175H reveals a distinct gain-of-function mechanism30
Efficacy and tolerability of neoadjuvant therapy with Talimogene laherparepvec in cutaneous basal cell carcinoma: a phase II trial (NeoBCC trial)30
Threonine fuels brain tumor growth through a conserved tRNA modification29
Using machine learning to translate tumor dependencies29
AI-assisted detection of lymph node metastases safely reduces costs and time29
Palmitate oxidation drives a pro-metastatic post-translational modification29
IKAROS and MENIN in synergy in AML28
The year that was 202228
Defending health rights in a post-Roe world28
Pediatric cancer incidence in China28
The meaning of impact28
Expanding the options for KRAS inhibition28
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