Cell is the leading molecular and cell biology journal. It published the Hallmarks of Cancer and much of the mechanistic biology behind today's cancer drugs.
Cell appears every two weeks. Hanahan and Weinberg's Hallmarks of Cancer (2000, 2011) appeared here, as did many TCGA Pan-Cancer Atlas papers, single-cell tumour microenvironment atlases, CRISPR screening resources and the mechanistic work on oncogene signalling. Elsevier hybrid model; STAR Methods and data-availability requirements are strict.
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It explains why one biopsy can mislead and why chemotherapy selects for the protective neighbourhood, an argument for spatial rather than bulk profiling.
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It shows that the commonest driver event in advanced prostate cancer is invisible to the panels used to test for it, and that the shape of the structural damage in a genome tells you which repair pathway failed, which is information a mutation list does not carry.
Cancers are defined as much by the tissue they come from as by the mutations they carry, which is why the same drug can work in one organ and fail in another with the same mutation. TCGA is the shared public dataset behind most modern biomarkers and target discovery.
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DepMap is the lookup table drug hunters use to ask: which cancers would die if we blocked this gene, and how would we recognise them? It generated targets such as WRN and PRMT5-MTAP now in clinical trials, and it is public.
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One of the most cited papers Europe PMC returns for Shailender Bhatia at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, so it is a natural starting point for reading their work. The record was linked automatically from the author list and affiliation; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
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One of the most cited papers Europe PMC returns for Jacques Grill at Gustave Roussy, so it is a natural starting point for reading their work. The record was linked automatically from the author list and affiliation; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
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The genomic definition of advanced prostate cancer, and the evidence that made molecular testing standard in it. The 19.3 percent DNA repair figure is the direct ancestor of PROfound, TRITON3, PROpel and TALAPRO-2, and the 8 percent germline figure is why a tumour result in this disease has implications for a man's relatives.
The reference classification of prostate cancer as it presents, and the source of the two numbers that drive most molecular treatment decisions in the disease: a quarter with a PI3K or MAPK lesion, which is the rationale for capivasertib in PTEN-deficient disease, and a fifth with DNA repair inactivation, which is the rationale for PARP inhibitors.
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A different picture of how a cancer genome is built, and one that explains why prostate cancer has few point mutations and a great deal of structural damage. It is also why whole-genome rather than exome sequencing is the right assay for this disease.
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This paper is the molecular sequel to the 2002 inflammation and cancer review and the basis for IL-6, JAK-STAT and NF-kB directed strategies in cancer as well as for aspirin and other anti-inflammatory prevention trials.
Almost every targeted therapy on this site, from trastuzumab and EGFR inhibitors to ALK, MET, RET and FGFR drugs, acts on the receptors this review describes. It is the mechanistic background for understanding both why these drugs work and why resistance mutations arise.
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This paper is why metastasis, stemness and therapy resistance are now studied as one problem. It suggests that the cells most able to spread are also the ones most able to regrow, and it motivates therapies that target the mesenchymal or stem-like state.
The hallmarks are the mental map most oncologists and researchers use to think about what cancer is and where drugs act. A newcomer can understand nearly every therapy as an attack on one hallmark: kinase inhibitors on proliferative signalling, checkpoint blockade on immune evasion, anti-VEGF drugs on angiogenesis.
This review fixed the picture of p53 as the guardian of the genome that every textbook uses. It explains why TP53-mutant cancers are aggressive and hard to treat, why MDM2 inhibitors are being developed to reactivate wild-type p53, and why germline TP53 testing matters in families.
This paper closed the loop between DNA damage, p53 and the cell cycle machinery. p21 is now a standard marker of p53 activity, part of how chemotherapy and radiotherapy stop cells dividing, and a component of the senescence response that CDK4/6 inhibitors exploit.
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The reason pancreatic cancer is the proving ground for RAS drugs: nearly every tumour depends on the same mutant protein, so a drug that works against it works for nearly every patient.
Discovered the TMPRSS2-ERG fusion in prostate cancer and built one of the first clinical sequencing programmes.
Blood cell molecular biologist who has led Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research since 2023, sharpening its focus on genomics, immunology and cancer.
Bert Vogelstein is the most-cited scientist in cancer genetics: he mapped how colorectal cancer develops and founded the field of cancer genome sequencing and blood-based detection.
Led the first personalised neoantigen peptide vaccine trial in melanoma and mapped how CLL evolves under treatment.
Defined the molecular subtypes of breast cancer (luminal, HER2-enriched, basal-like) that clinicians now use every day.
Built the pancreatic cancer organoid models now used to test drugs against a patient's own tumour.
Surgeon-scientist who led the TCGA endometrial cancer study that created today's four molecular subtypes.
Co-author of the Fearon-Vogelstein model of how colorectal cancer develops step by step.
Tumour biologist known for linking inflammation to cancer, directing the Georg-Speyer-Haus within UCT Frankfurt.
Francisca Vazquez leads DepMap, the public map of which genes each cancer cell line cannot live without.
Wrote the algorithms (MuTect, MutSig, ABSOLUTE) that most cancer genome studies use to find mutations.
MD Anderson's chief scientist, a cell-cycle biologist who ran drug discovery in industry before leading the centre's research.
Isolated the first blood stem cells and discovered the 'don't eat me' signal CD47 on cancer cells.
Paris paediatric neuro-oncologist who led HERBY, the trial that showed adding bevacizumab does not help children with high-grade glioma, and who leads European trials in diffuse midline glioma.
Discovered that blocking CTLA-4 unleashes T cells against cancer, the work behind ipilimumab and the 2018 Nobel Prize.
Hematopathologist and cancer genomics pioneer who has led St. Jude Children's Research Hospital since 2014.
Jia Fan leads one of the world's busiest liver cancer surgery and transplant programmes and the proteogenomic studies that mapped how hepatitis B-related liver cancer differs at the molecular level.
Led KEYNOTE-045, the first trial to show immunotherapy beats chemotherapy in advanced bladder cancer.
Tumour immunologist at Ludwig Lausanne who began a two-year term as President of the European Association for Cancer Research in June 2026.
The cancer biologist and former American Cancer Society chief executive who now runs the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.
Medical oncologist and cancer biologist at Tübingen, known for work on senescence surveillance and functional genomics in liver cancer.
Li Ding is the computational leader of TCGA and CPTAC analyses linking genomes to proteins across cancers.
Built MSK-IMPACT, the tumour sequencing test used on more than 100,000 patients and the first FDA-authorised hospital panel.
Founded cancer neuroscience and led the GD2 CAR-T trial that produced the first regressions of diffuse midline glioma.
Mapped how macrophages and dendritic cells in tumours suppress immunity, opening new immunotherapy targets.
Discovered the BCR-ABL kinase activity that imatinib blocks and now hunts for new prostate cancer targets.
Runs the platform that studies patients' tumours before and after immunotherapy to learn why checkpoint drugs work or fail.
Immunologist who built Canada's TIL therapy programme and defined T-cell tolerance mechanisms.
Showed how smoking-related lung cancers carry ten times the mutations of never-smokers' tumours.
Biomedical engineer whose Koch Institute lab pioneered controlled drug delivery and nanomedicine, including approaches to cancer therapy.
Medical oncologist and cancer-evolution researcher who leads the TRACERx Renal study and now directs the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute.
Seattle oncologist who led STAMP, the trial that showed pembrolizumab after surgery reduces recurrence of Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer.
Discovered regulatory T cells, the immune cells that suppress anti-tumour responses and are now a target for cancer therapy.
Neuroscientist and co-founder who runs the Arc Institute, an independent research institute in the San Francisco Bay Area built to tackle complex diseases.
Scientist who directs the Cancer Research UK City of London Centre, the multi-institution London hub for cancer biotherapeutics research.
Genome biologist who chairs UMC Utrecht's Strategic Program Cancer, the umbrella for more than 800 cancer researchers in Utrecht.
She found that PIK3CA is one of the most frequently mutated genes in human cancer, then spent the next twenty years working out which of a melanoma's mutations the immune system can actually see.
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It explains why one biopsy can mislead and why chemotherapy selects for the protective neighbourhood, an argument for spatial rather than bulk profiling.
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It shows that the commonest driver event in advanced prostate cancer is invisible to the panels used to test for it, and that the shape of the structural damage in a genome tells you which repair pathway failed, which is information a mutation list does not carry.
Shares Massive genomic rearrangement acquired in a single catastrophic event during cancer development, The Multifaceted Role of Chromosomal Instability in Cancer and Its Microenvironment.
Shares A chromatin-mediated reversible drug-tolerant state in cancer cell subpopulations, Persistent Cancer Cells: The Deadly Survivors.