Oncology and Cancer Research

Cancer is a group of heterogeneous diseases that accounts for 1 in 6 deaths globally. Current research efforts focus on screening, early detection and discovering improved treatment options with the aim of decreasing patient mortality. This editorial selection from Nature Communications highlights some of our recent most exciting papers that significantly move forward the rapid evolving field of cancer research.

Nature Cancer presents a Series of commissioned Review and Perspective articles highlighting emerging concepts in cancer therapy, novel therapeutic approaches and the challenges in translating preclinical findings into clinical benefit, accompanied by a collection of relevant primary research and News and Comment articles.

This series aims to highlight significant findings and recent advances in mRNA vaccines and mRNA-based therapies in the fight against cancer.

The involvement of miRNAs on cancer hallmarks and their potential as therapeutics has been well established over a number of years now. In this collection, we present some key articles published during the last 2 years highlighting the diverse functions of miRNAs in cancer.

Cross Journal Collection between BMC microbiology & BMC Cancer.

Commissioned special issue that highlights the ongoing challenges in metastasis and research being undertaken to more thoroughly understand models of metastasis, disrupt the metastatic cascade, and improve treatment outcomes for patients.

Special issue highlighting the recent efforts in understanding the mechanisms driving cancer evolution, heterogeneity, and metastasis.

A collection of cancer-related papers published recently in Communications Biology.

Review and research papers covering the unique metabolic properties of cancer cells.

Online collection of key articles published in Oncogene on breast cancer.

Special issue on KRAS - the most frequently mutated human oncogene in cancer.

Special Issue: Six focused mini-reviews that cover specific aspects related to the concept of blood vessel co-option by cancer cells.

Online collection bringing together key articles on this topic from Oncogene, Oncogenesis, British Journal of Cancer, and Blood Cancer Journal.

This issue captures the advances in understanding mutational processes and signatures, genome instability, cancer evolution, tumor heterogeneity, immune escape and resistance to therapies.

A collection describing advances using genomic approaches toward characterizing the immune system in the tumor microenvironment, anti-tumor immune responses, and immunotherapeutic targeting.