Nature Cancer

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Cancer is 27. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Untangling the threads of immunotherapy research589
Outcompeting neighbors for intestinal cancer initiation388
Gut decisions in CAR T cell therapy381
Alzheimer’s drug turns macrophages against cancer349
PARP11 interfer(on)es with CAR T cell efficacy346
Enhancing childhood cancer targetability314
Shooting for multiplexed pathology with Orion295
Author Correction: Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling293
Author Correction: Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction289
A macrophage-activated abscopal effect257
Breaking frontiers with multidisciplinary cancer research232
MALAT1 protects dormant tumor cells from immune elimination222
Single-cell transcriptomic landscape deciphers olfactory neuroblastoma subtypes and intra-tumoral heterogeneity199
An oncolytic circular RNA therapy199
A single-cell map of dynamic chromatin landscapes of immune cells in renal cell carcinoma193
The proteasome regulator PSME4 modulates proteasome activity and antigen diversity to abrogate antitumor immunity in NSCLC187
A low-coverage liquid biopsy for lung cancer183
Different niches for stem cells carrying the same oncogenic driver affect pathogenesis and therapy response in myeloproliferative neoplasms181
Author Correction: IL-17A-secreting γδ T cells promote resistance to CDK4/CDK6 inhibitors in HR+HER2− breast cancer via CX3CR1+ macrophages177
Breast cancer cells survive chemotherapy by activating targetable immune-modulatory programs characterized by PD-L1 or CD80174
ZFP281 drives a mesenchymal-like dormancy program in early disseminated breast cancer cells that prevents metastatic outgrowth in the lung159
Landscape of prostate-specific membrane antigen heterogeneity and regulation in AR-positive and AR-negative metastatic prostate cancer148
The cGAS–STING pathway and cancer144
Repeated peripheral infusions of anti-EGFRvIII CAR T cells in combination with pembrolizumab show no efficacy in glioblastoma: a phase 1 trial139
Considering molecular alterations as pan-cancer tissue-agnostic targets129
Expanding the options for KRAS inhibition126
The importance of being generous125
Reflecting on the golden age of cancer research119
DePICting T cell–APC crosstalk in cancer116
Beating cancer one carbon at a time115
Adoptively transferred tumor-specific IL-9-producing cytotoxic CD8+ T cells activate host CD4+ T cells to control tumors with antigen loss113
Stress granules shape metabolic reprogramming and drug resistance113
Bone marrow progenitor-like cells against leukemia cure112
Palmitate oxidation drives a pro-metastatic post-translational modification111
Advancing therapeutics in small-cell lung cancer108
Determinants of resistance and response to melanoma therapy106
Shaping the microenvironment in peritoneal metastases106
Impact of context-dependent autophagy states on tumor progression106
A targetable type III immune response with increase of IL-17A expressing CD4+ T cells is associated with immunotherapy-induced toxicity in melanoma106
Reply to: Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor100
crossNN is an explainable framework for cross-platform DNA methylation-based classification of tumors97
IKAROS and MENIN coordinate therapeutically actionable leukemogenic gene expression in MLL-r acute myeloid leukemia97
A tumor-derived type III collagen-rich ECM niche regulates tumor cell dormancy94
Targeting PRMT9-mediated arginine methylation suppresses cancer stem cell maintenance and elicits cGAS-mediated anticancer immunity94
Engineering-enhanced CAR T cells for improved cancer therapy93
The labors of referees92
LAG-3 and PD-1 blockade raises the bar for melanoma91
Cycling back to folate metabolism in cancer90
Integrative single-cell analysis of human colorectal cancer reveals patient stratification with distinct immune evasion mechanisms90
Thriving in diverse ecosystems90
A quick guide for clinical oncology86
Inflammation meets translation in AML84
Antibody avidity meets multiple myeloma83
Sarcoma ecotypes determine immunotherapy benefit83
A comeback for checkpoint inhibition in multiple myeloma83
Sex-specific gut microbiota and neutrophil senescence in bladder cancer81
ALK peptide vaccination restores the immunogenicity of ALK-rearranged non-small cell lung cancer81
Author Correction: Interleukin 17 signaling supports clinical benefit of dual CTLA-4 and PD-1 checkpoint inhibition in melanoma81
Clinical implementation of artificial-intelligence-assisted detection of breast cancer metastases in sentinel lymph nodes: the CONFIDENT-B single-center, non-randomized clinical trial80
Circadian regulation of cancer stem cells and the tumor microenvironment during metastasis80
Innate immunity drives epithelial cell plasticity during prostate tumor formation80
A multiomic atlas identifies a treatment-resistant, bone marrow progenitor-like cell population in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia80
Direct and selective pharmacological disruption of the YAP–TEAD interface by IAG933 inhibits Hippo-dependent and RAS–MAPK-altered cancers79
Loss of the receptors ER, PR and HER2 promotes USP15-dependent stabilization of PARP1 in triple-negative breast cancer79
Discovery of potent and selective HER2 inhibitors with efficacy against HER2 exon 20 insertion-driven tumors, which preserve wild-type EGFR signaling78
Proteogenomic landscape of human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in an Asian population reveals tumor cell-enriched and immune-rich subtypes78
INPP5A phosphatase is a synthetic lethal target in GNAQ and GNA11-mutant melanomas77
Radioligand cancer therapy comes to the fore76
Immunosuppressive dura-derived macrophages in leptomeningeal metastasis76
Regulatory T cells play a crucial part in radio-immunotherapy resistance of brain tumors76
Building a translational cancer dependency map for The Cancer Genome Atlas75
Bispecific antibodies seek out colon cancer stem cells75
Radiation sparks a dark side in neutrophils75
MCL1 inhibitor BRD-810 kills cancer cells while minimizing risk of cardiotoxicity75
How AI agents will change cancer research and oncology75
CHD1 status drives divergent metabolic pathways in SPOP-mutant prostate cancer74
Efficacy of pembrolizumab and vorinostat combination in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinomas: a phase 2 basket trial72
Dual inhibition of EGFR and PI3K with a single drug72
Differential chromatin accessibility and transcriptional dynamics define breast cancer subtypes and their lineages72
Multimodal data integration improves immunotherapy response prediction71
First-in-class ultralong-target-residence-time p38α inhibitors as a mitosis-targeted therapy for colorectal cancer70
Author Correction: Ectopic JAK–STAT activation enables the transition to a stem-like and multilineage state conferring AR-targeted therapy resistance70
Author Correction: Engineering-enhanced CAR T cells for improved cancer therapy69
Multiregion sampling of de novo metastatic prostate cancer reveals complex polyclonality and augments clinical genotyping69
Concurrent inhibition of tumor growth and metastasis by a lipidated nanophotosensitizer tracing and disabling tumor extracellular vesicles68
A phase II study of talazoparib monotherapy in patients with wild-type BRCA1 and BRCA2 with a mutation in other homologous recombination genes65
PD-1 instructs a tumor-suppressive metabolic program that restricts glycolysis and restrains AP-1 activity in T cell lymphoma64
Immunotargeting of a recurrent AML-specific neoantigen64
Three-dimensional imaging mass cytometry for highly multiplexed molecular and cellular mapping of tissues and the tumor microenvironment63
GEMys homing in on metastasis62
LCOR mediates interferon-independent tumor immunogenicity and responsiveness to immune-checkpoint blockade in triple-negative breast cancer62
The dopamine transporter antagonist vanoxerine inhibits G9a and suppresses cancer stem cell functions in colon tumors61
Single-cell analysis and functional characterization uncover the stem cell hierarchies and developmental origins of rhabdomyosarcoma60
BRD-810 is a highly selective MCL1 inhibitor with optimized in vivo clearance and robust efficacy in solid and hematological tumor models60
Protein-level mutant p53 reporters identify druggable rare precancerous clones in noncancerous tissues59
Targeting BRCA-mutated tumors in mitosis58
Selective targeting of malignant T cells57
AKTing on XPO1 inhibition in AML57
Highlights from the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting56
Threonine fuels glioblastoma through YRDC-mediated codon-biased translational reprogramming55
Bispecific chimeric T cell receptors tackle tumor heterogeneity55
Macrophage mitochondrial fission improves cancer cell phagocytosis induced by therapeutic antibodies and is impaired by glutamine competition55
The pro-oncogenic noncanonical activity of a RAS•GTP:RanGAP1 complex facilitates nuclear protein export54
Identification of a clinically efficacious CAR T cell subset in diffuse large B cell lymphoma by dynamic multidimensional single-cell profiling54
The Cancer Surfaceome Atlas integrates genomic, functional and drug response data to identify actionable targets54
Advances in antibody-based therapy in oncology53
The tumor microenvironment’s role in the response to immune checkpoint blockade53
Single-cell analyses implicate ascites in remodeling the ecosystems of primary and metastatic tumors in ovarian cancer53
Epigenetic plasticity in PDAC52
Single-cell meta-analyses reveal responses of tumor-reactive CXCL13+ T cells to immune-checkpoint blockade52
Anything to declare?52
An antisense RNA promotes breast cancer metastasis via upregulation of NQO151
There are gremlins in prostate cancer51
Author Correction: Anti-CTLA-4 antibodies drive myeloid activation and reprogram the tumor microenvironment through FcγR engagement and type I interferon signaling51
From the editor’s desk51
Myeloma evades T cell-engaging therapies51
Neoadjuvant immunotherapy marks a new era in oncology51
P2RY2-AKT activation is a therapeutically actionable consequence of XPO1 inhibition in acute myeloid leukemia50
Author Correction: An inflammatory state remodels the immune microenvironment and improves risk stratification in acute myeloid leukemia50
Estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer subtypes show differential macrophage functions50
In vivo macrophage engineering for renal cancer therapy50
Sarcoma microenvironment cell states and ecosystems are associated with prognosis and predict response to immunotherapy49
Innate immunity and the NF-κB pathway control prostate stem cell plasticity, reprogramming and tumor initiation49
Author Correction: Acquired resistance to a GPRC5D-directed T-cell engager in multiple myeloma is mediated by genetic or epigenetic target inactivation49
Dual modulation of cytotoxic and checkpoint receptors tunes the efficacy of adoptive Delta One T cell therapy against colorectal cancer49
Author Correction: Autotaxin–lysolipid signaling suppresses a CCL11–eosinophil axis to promote pancreatic cancer progression48
An unexpected career in cancer metabolism48
Targeting ADAR1 with a small molecule for the treatment of prostate cancer46
SETD2 loss perturbs the kidney cancer epigenetic landscape to promote metastasis and engenders actionable dependencies on histone chaperone complexes45
Metabolic symbiosis in pancreatic cancer45
A single-cell atlas of glioblastoma evolution under therapy reveals cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets45
An anti-PD-1–GITR-L bispecific agonist induces GITR clustering-mediated T cell activation for cancer immunotherapy45
Ricolinostat is not a highly selective HDAC6 inhibitor44
Tumor evolution metrics predict recurrence beyond 10 years in locally advanced prostate cancer43
A new sophistication for breast cancer PDXs43
p53 at the crossroads of tumor immunity43
PD-L2 expression in senescent cancer cells limits tumor clearance after chemotherapy43
Clonal origin of KMT2A wild-type lineage-switch leukemia following CAR-T cell and blinatumomab therapy43
Clinical and translational attributes of immune-related adverse events43
Circumventing the roadblocks to targeting EGFR-driven cancers43
A reversible SRC-relayed COX2 inflammatory program drives resistance to BRAF and EGFR inhibition in BRAFV600E colorectal tumors42
Mitochondrial DNA mutation enhances sensitivity to immunotherapy in melanoma42
Author Correction: Loss of MAT2A compromises methionine metabolism and represents a vulnerability in H3K27M mutant glioma by modulating the epigenome42
Masking T cell engagers mitigates on-target off-tumor activity42
Overcoming extracellular vesicle-mediated fratricide improves CAR T cell treatment against solid tumors41
Breaking the performance ceiling for neoantigen immunogenicity prediction40
Understanding the biology of lung cancer brain metastases40
UnitedMet harnesses RNA–metabolite covariation to impute metabolite levels in clinical samples40
CD8+ T cell killing of MHC class I–deficient tumors39
CAR T cell therapy: looking back and looking forward39
CD103+ regulatory T cells underlie resistance to radio-immunotherapy and impair CD8+ T cell activation in glioblastoma39
Unique structural configuration of EV-DNA primes Kupffer cell-mediated antitumor immunity to prevent metastatic progression39
TIGIT and PD-L1 co-blockade promotes clonal expansion of multipotent, non-exhausted antitumor T cells by facilitating co-stimulation39
Glutaminase inhibition in combination with azacytidine in myelodysplastic syndromes: a phase 1b/2 clinical trial and correlative analyses39
FLASH radiation reprograms lipid metabolism and macrophage immunity and sensitizes medulloblastoma to CAR-T cell therapy39
A randomized, non-comparative phase 2 study of neoadjuvant immune-checkpoint blockade in retroperitoneal dedifferentiated liposarcoma and extremity/truncal undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma38
Targeting PARP11 to avert immunosuppression and improve CAR T therapy in solid tumors38
Communicating with respect37
Tumor-intrinsic sensitivity to the pro-apoptotic effects of IFN-γ is a major determinant of CD4+ CAR T-cell antitumor activity37
Temporal single-cell tracing reveals clonal revival and expansion of precursor exhausted T cells during anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer37
Multiomics in primary and metastatic breast tumors from the AURORA US network finds microenvironment and epigenetic drivers of metastasis37
The meaning of impact37
Tumor-associated macrophages restrict CD8+ T cell function through collagen deposition and metabolic reprogramming of the breast cancer microenvironment37
Leveraging translational insights toward precision medicine approaches for brain metastases36
Harnessing the microbiome to restore immunotherapy response36
Insight from the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 202536
Near-infrared optogenetic engineering of bacteria for cancer therapy36
Therapeutic targeting of the mevalonate–geranylgeranyl diphosphate pathway with statins overcomes chemotherapy resistance in small cell lung cancer35
CD4+ CAR T cells — more than helpers35
Leveraging the potential for deintensification in cancer care34
Spatially resolved transcriptomics and graph-based deep learning improve accuracy of routine CNS tumor diagnostics34
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia displays a distinct highly methylated genome34
Efficacy and tolerability of neoadjuvant therapy with Talimogene laherparepvec in cutaneous basal cell carcinoma: a phase II trial (NeoBCC trial)34
EZH2 inhibition remodels the inflammatory senescence-associated secretory phenotype to potentiate pancreatic cancer immune surveillance33
Genomic and immune signatures predict clinical outcome in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma treated with immunotherapy regimens33
Global loss of promoter–enhancer connectivity and rebalancing of gene expression during early colorectal cancer carcinogenesis33
Commensal metabolite boosts chemotherapy33
Disparities, aging and childhood cancer32
Author Correction: Cytokine release syndrome-like serum responses after COVID-19 vaccination are frequent and clinically inapparent under cancer immunotherapy32
‘IL-2Rα-biased’ IL-2 for cancer immunotherapy32
Context-dependent tumor-suppressive BMP signaling in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma regulates stemness through epigenetic regulation of CXXC531
Immunoradiotherapy goes club(bing)31
The rapidly evolving paradigm of neoadjuvant immunotherapy across cancer types31
The aging lung reawakens dormant tumor cells31
Targeting the histone reader ZMYND8 inhibits antiandrogen-induced neuroendocrine tumor transdifferentiation of prostate cancer31
Targeting HIF-1 to treat AML30
Fibrotic tumors tune metabolism for immune evasion30
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 trial29
Integrative analysis of risk factors for immune-related adverse events of checkpoint blockade therapy in cancer28
The landscape of T cell antigens for cancer immunotherapy28
ISB 2001 trispecific T cell engager shows strong tumor cytotoxicity and overcomes immune escape mechanisms of multiple myeloma cells28
Melanoma-derived small extracellular vesicles induce lymphangiogenesis and metastasis through an NGFR-dependent mechanism28
Targeting PUS7 suppresses tRNA pseudouridylation and glioblastoma tumorigenesis28
Cytidine deaminases APOBEC3C and APOBEC3D promote DNA replication stress resistance in pancreatic cancer cells28
Probing clonal dynamics with single-cell genomics27
Checkpoint blockade regulates T cell fate by supporting co-stimulation27
CAR T cell therapy for multiple myeloma27
The growing threat of cyberwarfare in cancer healthcare27
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