Nature is the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal. The big cancer biology discoveries land here: cancer genome atlases, tumour evolution, new drug targets and early first-in-human results.
Nature appears weekly. In cancer it publishes the discovery papers that later become drugs and tests (KRAS G12C inhibition, Ostrem 2013), large sequencing consortia (TCGA, PCAWG, TRACERx), the mRNA neoantigen vaccine and menin-inhibitor first-in-human reports, and foundational tools such as AlphaFold. Hybrid since 2021 with an open-access option; news and comment pages shape research policy debates.
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If a childhood exposure to colibactin-producing Escherichia coli writes APC mutations into the colon decades before a tumour appears, then the rise in early-onset bowel cancer may be preventable by something done in childhood rather than by screening alone.
The strongest human evidence that a cancer vaccine can make durable T cells in a tumour with few mutations; the randomised phase 2 IMCODE003 (260 patients, primary completion listed for January 2031) is the test of whether that translates into fewer relapses.
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The mechanism that let one drug address G12D, G12V and G12R together, which is why the RASolute 302 trial could enrol unselected pancreatic cancer and nearly double survival.
Revumenib proved that a transcriptional dependency, rather than a kinase, can be drugged in leukaemia, opening treatment for two genetic subgroups that together cover roughly a third of AML plus most infant ALL. It is now approved and is being combined with venetoclax-azacitidine and intensive chemotherapy in front-line trials. Single-agent remissions are often short without transplant.
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It reframes air quality as cancer policy rather than respiratory policy, and it explains the shape of lung cancer in never-smokers: the mutations are common and mostly silent, and what differs is whether something inflames the tissue enough to let one of them grow.
Pancreatic cancer was thought to be immunologically inert because of its low mutation burden; this study showed that with the right vaccine platform its few neoantigens can still be targeted. It is the strongest human evidence so far that personalised cancer vaccines can generate durable, tumour-specific immunity, and it justifies the randomised trials now running in pancreatic cancer and melanoma. Benefit is not yet proven, because responders may simply have had more immunogenic tumours.
Relapse after surgery is driven by particular subclones that can be identified in the primary tumour and tracked in blood, which argues for evolution-aware adjuvant strategies. The pollution finding reframes carcinogenesis: some agents promote already-mutant cells rather than causing mutations.
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The shape of nearly every protein is now available to any researcher in seconds instead of years, which shortens the path from a cancer target to a designed molecule. It does not by itself produce drugs: binding pockets, dynamics and cellular context still need experiment.
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One of the most cited papers Europe PMC returns for Antoine Italiano at Institut Bergonié, 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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Re-biopsy and re-sequencing at relapse can find repair defects and a higher mutation burden that the primary did not show, which matters for PARP inhibitor and immunotherapy eligibility in metastatic TNBC.
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It sets the baseline the adenoma-carcinoma sequence starts from and warns against reading a driver mutation found in tissue, or in stool or blood, as evidence of cancer.
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It reframes multifocal high-grade dysplasia found at surveillance: the pancreas may hold one spreading lesion rather than several, which bears on how much gland to remove.
It is the clearest mechanistic answer to why microsatellite-stable colorectal cancer resists immunotherapy, and the rationale for every TGF-beta plus checkpoint combination now in trials in this disease.
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This paper made AI-assisted skin cancer triage a serious clinical prospect and became the template for later work in radiology and pathology. Prospective trials, regulatory clearance and performance across skin tones followed, and are where its promise is now being tested.
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It is the proof that T cells can control pancreatic cancer in some people, and the scientific basis for the personalised neoantigen vaccines now in trials.
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The foundation of minimal residual disease testing in lung cancer: a blood test that says a patient will relapse months before a scan does, and says which part of the tumour is doing it. Whether acting on that signal changes outcome is what the ctDNA-guided trials are for.
The lower response of acral and mucosal melanoma to immunotherapy and the interest in KIT and CDK4/6 inhibitors for these subtypes follow from this genomic picture.
The textbook PanIN-to-cancer ladder is only part of the story, and a screening programme cannot assume years of orderly progression in every patient.
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With Moffitt's classical and basal-like split (the squamous and basal-like groups overlap) this fixed the molecular vocabulary of the disease and gave Precision-Panc and the UK's Glasgow group their trial framework.
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Why small-cell lung cancer has no targeted therapy in the conventional sense: it is built from the loss of TP53 and RB1, and the drugs that transformed non-small-cell disease inhibit gains rather than restore losses. The NOTCH result pointed at DLL3 and, eventually, at tarlatamab.
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Metastatic prostate cancer is a communicating population, not a set of independent colonies, which is an argument for treating the whole body rather than chasing individual deposits, and an argument that resistance to androgen receptor drugs will emerge in several places at once because it emerges convergently.
The genomic case for platinum in BRCA-type pancreatic cancer, four years before POLO built a maintenance strategy on top of it.
The immunotherapy sensitivity of microsatellite-unstable and Epstein-Barr virus-positive gastric cancer and the claudin 18.2 and HER2 targets map onto these subtypes.
It is the reference table the field still argues against, and it made two practical points that outlived it: a tumour with no driver on a standard panel usually has one that the panel did not look for, and pathway activity measured on protein does not follow from the mutation list.
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This paper explained why PD-1 antibodies work in some patients and not others and introduced the idea of inflamed versus non-inflamed tumours that now guides combination strategies designed to bring T cells into cold tumours.
This is the origin of the molecular classification now used for every endometrial cancer, translated into a practical test by ProMisE.
The most frequently mutated oncogene in cancer stopped being undruggable, and patients with KRAS G12C lung and bowel cancers now have targeted pills. The approach, exploiting a mutation-created chemical handle and an inactive-state pocket, has become a template for other hard targets.
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It explained why squamous lung cancer has no equivalent of an EGFR inhibitor: its commonest alterations are a transcription factor amplicon, a tumour suppressor deletion and an antioxidant switch, none of which is a drug target in the way a mutant kinase is.
It is the reference description of the disease and the source of the hypermutated split that decides who gets immunotherapy; it also put HER2 on the colorectal map as a drug target.
This is the reference frequency table for basal-like disease: it explains why PARP inhibitors and platinum, borrowed from ovarian cancer, work in TNBC, and why the PI3K pathway is broken by copy number rather than the hotspot mutations that drugs were designed against.
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It made acquired resistance a measurable, plasma-readable event, and it is the origin of anti-EGFR rechallenge strategies guided by ctDNA clearance of the resistant clone.
The APGI cohort became the backbone of the QCMG whole-genome and subtype papers; ATM's entry here is the origin of its place on today's germline panels.
It gave the WNT pathway a second, druggable entry point: RSPO fusion tumours still need the upstream receptor complex, so they are the population porcupine and RSPO3 inhibitors are being tested in.
The first TNBC-specific genome paper established that the disease has no shared driver beyond TP53 and that each tumour is a clonal mixture, the reason single-target drugs have struggled and ctDNA tracking needs patient-specific variants.
It reframed resistance as selection rather than mutation, which is why the field now asks how to suppress a pre-existing clone rather than how to prevent a new mutation, and why ctDNA is the natural monitoring tool.
The explanation for why prostate cancer has so few targeted drugs outside the hormone axis and the DNA-repair genes: it is a quiet genome with structural rather than point-mutational damage, and the recurrent changes sit in the machinery that reads DNA rather than in kinases.
The homologous recombination deficiency concept, and the case for testing all high-grade serous cancers for BRCA and related defects, come from this dataset.
It is the quantitative case for early detection: the biology allows a fifteen-year window, and the disease is lethal because we look too late, not because it moves fast.
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Organoids from patients' tumours are now used to test drugs before treatment, to model rare cancers and to study resistance. Every one of those systems descends from this culture method.
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The second driver in lung cancer, and the one that proved the first was not a special case. It also established mutual exclusivity as a working assumption: a tumour usually has one driver, so finding it tells you what to give.
This paper connected the cancer stem cell idea to a clinical problem, the near-universal recurrence of glioblastoma after radiotherapy, and gave a mechanism and a drug target. It is part of the rationale for combining radiotherapy with DNA damage response inhibitors now in trials.
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This paper extended the cancer stem cell model to brain tumours and set up the later finding that these cells resist radiotherapy. It is the basis for treatment strategies aimed at the cells that regrow glioblastoma after surgery and chemoradiation.
This paper is why the tumour microenvironment is studied as intensely as the cancer cell itself. It underpins vaccination against HPV and hepatitis B as cancer prevention, aspirin and anti-inflammatory trials in bowel cancer, and the current work on macrophages and myeloid cells as immunotherapy targets.
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The paper launched two decades of work on tumour-initiating cells in solid cancers, on why relapse follows apparently complete responses, and on measuring residual disease at the level of the cells that can regrow it. It also connected developmental biology pathways to cancer drug discovery.
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The origin of the intrinsic subtypes and of the word basal-like; triple-negative breast cancer is the clinical shadow of this molecular group, though the two overlap imperfectly.
This paper is the reason TP53 status, MDM2 amplification and CDKN2A loss are read together in tumour genomes. It frames the current drug development around MDM2 inhibitors and mutant p53 reactivators as attempts to restore a network rather than a single protein.
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It split colorectal cancer into the two instability classes the field still uses, and made the chromosomal class a phenotype to be explained rather than background noise.
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Co-discovered that BRCA-deficient cancers die when PARP is blocked, the idea behind an entire drug class.
The Newcastle oncologist who led the NHS England pilot that put a blood test for lung cancer mutations into the diagnostic pathway, and who co-leads the CONCORDE radiotherapy platform.
Used ctDNA to show how colorectal cancers evolve resistance to EGFR antibodies and how that resistance can fade.
Co-created the DNA methylation classifier that changed how brain tumours are diagnosed worldwide.
Bordeaux oncologist who led CABONE, the trial that showed cabozantinib shrinks or stabilises osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma after standard treatment has failed.
Melanoma immunotherapy leader behind pembrolizumab's first trials and the science of why immunotherapy fails.
Arto Mannermaa represents Kuopio University Hospital Cancer Center in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists the centre among its members in Finland.
Co-invented the CAPP-Seq method for reading tumour DNA in blood and used it to track lymphoma and lung 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.
Epigenetics researcher who became CEO of Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in September 2025.
He pushed a shelved kinase inhibitor through the laboratory and into a 1998 trial when few believed a targeted pill could work. Imatinib made chronic myeloid leukaemia a disease people live with, and became the model for targeted therapy.
Bruce Stillman discovered how DNA replication starts, the process cancer cells push into overdrive.
Led METABRIC, which used 2,000 tumours to define ten genomic subtypes of breast cancer and their long-term outcomes.
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.
Leads TRACERx, the study that follows lung cancers as they evolve, and showed how air pollution can trigger lung cancer without new mutations.
Head and neck oncologist who helped define the genomic subtypes of HPV-positive and HPV-negative disease.
Co-discovered the synthetic lethality between PARP inhibition and BRCA loss that underlies PARP inhibitor therapy.
Found that leukaemias depend on the chromatin reader BRD4, launching BET inhibitors, and mapped transcriptional addictions in sarcoma.
Costas Lyssiotis shows how pancreatic tumours feed off their surrounding cells and how to cut the supply.
Crystal Mackall is a cell therapy pioneer whose team brought GD2 CAR-T to children with brain tumours that had no treatment.
Professor of urology and of cellular and molecular medicine who directs the University of Arizona Cancer Center, the NCI-designated cancer centre in Tucson.
Co-discovered EGFR mutations in lung cancer and pioneered circulating tumour cell technology.
Treated the first adult CLL patients with CAR-T and reported a decade of durable remissions.
Surgeon-scientist who led the TCGA endometrial cancer study that created today's four molecular subtypes.
Led the DRUP trial giving off-label targeted drugs by genomic match, and developed organoid-based testing.
Systems biologist who has led the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a major funder of US biomedical and cancer research, since 2016.
Led the enasidenib and revumenib trials that brought IDH2 and menin inhibitors to acute leukaemia.
Breast cancer geneticist who led SOLAR-1 and the SAFIR precision-medicine trials; ESMO President 2025-2026.
Built UNI and CONCH, the pathology foundation models that let AI read whole-slide images across cancer types.
Led CodeBreaK 100, the trial that made sotorasib the first approved KRAS inhibitor, and showed STK11/KEAP1 co-mutations blunt immunotherapy.
Biologist and long-time CNIO director of biotechnology programmes who became Acting Scientific Director of Spain's national cancer research centre in 2025.
Wrote the algorithms (MuTect, MutSig, ABSOLUTE) that most cancer genome studies use to find mutations.
The Birmingham oncologist who ran the National Lung Matrix Trial, the largest umbrella trial in lung cancer, and published the honest answer: most drug-biomarker pairs did not work.
First author of the revumenib trial that created the menin inhibitor class for acute leukaemia.
Neurologist and neural stem cell researcher who serves as Scientific Director of IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan.
MD Anderson's chief scientist, a cell-cycle biologist who ran drug discovery in industry before leading the centre's research.
Yale outcomes researcher who founded and leads the YODA Project for independent access to clinical trial data.
Isolated the first blood stem cells and discovered the 'don't eat me' signal CD47 on cancer cells.
Molecular oncologist and Interim Director of the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, known for mapping how the oestrogen receptor drives breast cancer.
Chief investigator of PARTNER, the UK trial of neoadjuvant olaparib with platinum chemotherapy in triple-negative and BRCA-associated breast cancer, run from Addenbrooke's across 23 NHS sites (30 on the ClinicalTrials.gov record).
Medical oncologist who leads the IUCT Oncopole cooperation group in Toulouse and runs early-phase cancer drug trials.
The immunologist who ran the Parker Institute from its launch in 2016, building a shared research network across leading US cancer centres; he came from UCSF and now leads a regulatory T cell company.
Discovered cancer stem cells, showing leukaemia is driven by a rare population of self-renewing cells.
Neuroblastoma geneticist whose lab found the ALK mutations and immunotherapy targets now in paediatric trials.
An immunologist who worked out how killer T cells destroy their targets, and now directs research at Australia's cancer hospital.
In 1971 he proposed that tumours cannot grow beyond a few millimetres without recruiting blood vessels, and that blocking them could treat cancer. Dismissed for decades, the idea produced bevacizumab and a class of drugs.
The chemist whose lab found the hidden pocket in KRAS G12C that made the 'undruggable' target druggable.
Medical oncologist and cancer biologist at Tübingen, known for work on senescence surveillance and functional genomics in liver cancer.
Louis Staudt defined the molecular subtypes of large B-cell lymphoma that guide targeted therapy.
Created the mathematical framework for extracting mutational signatures from cancer genomes and the COSMIC signature catalogue.
Stem-cell and pancreas biologist who has led the Max Delbrück Center as Scientific Director since November 2022.
Erasmus MC haematologist and HOVON Vice Chair known for research on the bone marrow microenvironment in MDS.
Radiation oncologist who showed a blood test can detect leftover lung cancer months before scans.
Pioneer of cancer genome sequencing and mutational signatures; led the Cancer Genome Project and formerly directed the Sanger Institute.
Designed the second-generation CAR with a CD28 costimulatory domain that made CAR-T therapy work.
Founded cancer neuroscience and led the GD2 CAR-T trial that produced the first regressions of diffuse midline glioma.
Cloned p53 and then spent a career on what it does. The field's first reading of his own 1984 result, that p53 was an oncogene, turned out to be wrong, and the correction is the better story.
Endocrinologist appointed Director of AIIMS New Delhi in 2026, India's premier public medical institute and home to the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital.
Showed that whole-exome sequencing of blood can track how a cancer evolves, and co-founded Inivata.
Olivier Delattre discovered the EWS-FLI1 fusion that defines Ewing sarcoma.
Glasgow cancer biologist who directs the CRUK Scotland Institute and is Scientific Director of the CRUK Scotland Centre, known for mouse models of colorectal and pancreatic cancer.
Cancer biologist who discovered the dependence-receptor concept and took netrin-1 blockade from bench to clinical trials at Centre Léon Bérard.
Nobel laureate who discovered how cyclin-dependent kinases control cell division, and founding director of the Crick.
New York haematologist who led MANIFEST-2, the trial testing whether adding the BET inhibitor pelabresib to ruxolitinib helps people with myelofibrosis more than ruxolitinib alone.
Chemical biologist who leads India's Department of Biotechnology as its Secretary, having previously directed the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi.
Cancer geneticist who explained why BRAF inhibitors fail in colorectal cancer, leading to the BEACON combination.
Led the GD2 CAR-T trial in diffuse midline glioma and defined antigen density as a barrier to CAR-T in solid tumours.
Proposed cancer immunoediting and showed neoantigens are the targets of checkpoint immunotherapy.
Roman Thomas is a cancer genomicist who mapped the genomes of small-cell lung cancer.
The Royal Marsden thoracic oncologist, now its chief medical officer, who has been an investigator on most of the UK trials that put targeted drugs into lung cancer practice.
Shows how diet reprogrammes intestinal stem cells and immunity to change colorectal cancer risk.
Deciphered the mutational signatures written in cancer genomes and turned them into clinical tests like HRDetect.
Neuroscientist and co-founder who runs the Arc Institute, an independent research institute in the San Francisco Bay Area built to tackle complex diseases.
Paediatric oncologist whose genomic work redefined childhood brain tumours into molecular subgroups.
Genome scientist who heads research at SickKids and co-discovered genome-wide copy number variation in humans.
Brisbane breast pathologist who chairs the board of Breast Cancer Trials, the Australia and New Zealand breast cancer clinical trials group.
Scientist who directs the Cancer Research UK City of London Centre, the multi-institution London hub for cancer biotherapeutics research.
Co-discovered that PARP inhibitors kill BRCA-deficient cells, the synthetic lethality behind olaparib and its successors.
Led EV-302, NIAGARA and IMvigor011, the trials that transformed bladder cancer from chemotherapy-only to ADC, immunotherapy and ctDNA-guided care.
Timothy Ley led the first whole-genome sequencing of a cancer, an AML genome, in 2008.
Immunologist who built individualised mRNA neoantigen vaccines for cancer, the platform later used for COVID-19.
Surgeon-scientist whose personalised mRNA vaccine trial showed pancreatic cancer can provoke lasting T-cell immunity.
Immunologist who showed PD-L1 on tumours suppresses T cells and linked interferon to ferroptosis.
Discovered ALK mutations in neuroblastoma and led the trials bringing crizotinib and lorlatinib to children.
Led CheckMate 649, which made immunotherapy plus chemotherapy the first-line standard for gastric cancer, and the pembrolizumab-trastuzumab combination in HER2-positive disease.
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If a childhood exposure to colibactin-producing Escherichia coli writes APC mutations into the colon decades before a tumour appears, then the rise in early-onset bowel cancer may be preventable by something done in childhood rather than by screening alone.
The strongest human evidence that a cancer vaccine can make durable T cells in a tumour with few mutations; the randomised phase 2 IMCODE003 (260 patients, primary completion listed for January 2031) is the test of whether that translates into fewer relapses.
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The mechanism that let one drug address G12D, G12V and G12R together, which is why the RASolute 302 trial could enrol unselected pancreatic cancer and nearly double survival.
Revumenib proved that a transcriptional dependency, rather than a kinase, can be drugged in leukaemia, opening treatment for two genetic subgroups that together cover roughly a third of AML plus most infant ALL. It is now approved and is being combined with venetoclax-azacitidine and intensive chemotherapy in front-line trials. Single-agent remissions are often short without transplant.
Shares The clonal and mutational evolution spectrum of primary triple-negative breast cancers, Precancerous neoplastic cells can move through the pancreatic ductal system, Distant metastasis occurs late during the genetic evolution of pancreatic cancer, The landscape of somatic mutation in normal colorectal epithelial cells.
Shares Precancerous neoplastic cells can move through the pancreatic ductal system, Distant metastasis occurs late during the genetic evolution of pancreatic cancer, Identification of unique neoantigen qualities in long-term survivors of pancreatic cancer, The landscape of somatic mutation in normal colorectal epithelial cells.
Shares Chromosomal instability drives metastasis through a cytosolic DNA response, Genetic instability in colorectal cancers, A renewed model of pancreatic cancer evolution based on genomic rearrangement patterns, TRACERx 421: the full-cohort picture of how lung cancer evolves and which subclones drive relapse.