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Molecular Cancer

Issue 1/2026

Content (27 Articles)

Epithelial WNT secretion drives niche escape of developing gastric cancer

  • Open Access
  • Research

Jaehun Lee, Soomin Kim, Youngchul Oh, Stephan R. Jahn, Jihoon Kim, Yeongjun Kim, Tim Schmäche, Sang-Min Kim, Isaree Teriyapirom, Thomas Groß, Ohbin Kwon, Jungmin Kim, Somi Kim, Anne-Marlen Ada, Andrea Català-Bordes, Youngwon Cho, Jinho Kim, Amanda Andersson-Rolf, Sebastian R. Merker, Joo Yeon Lim, Ji-Yeon Park, Thomas M. Klompstra, Ki-Jun Yoon, Dae-Sik Lim, Ho-Seok Lee, Jong Kyoung Kim, Eunyoung Choi, James R. Goldenring, Jae-Ho Cheong, Hyunki Kim, Daniel E. Stange, Heetak Lee, Bon-Kyoung Koo, Ji-Hyun Lee

Lactate: elucidating its indispensable role in human health

Shengxin Zhang, Jie Wang, Ziyu Xu, Ziyang Cheng, Bin Shao, Jiayun Yu

Integrating single cell- and spatial- resolved transcriptomics unravels the inter-tumor heterogeneity and immunosuppressive landscape in HBV- and Clonorchis sinensis-associated hepatocellular carcinoma

Jiayun Chen, Wenmin Lu, Yanni Lou, Jing Liu, Xiwen Liao, Yunmeng Bai, Guangqing Cheng, Guangzhi Zhu, Ji Feng, Junqi Liu, Zhaoji Liu, Liqun Jia, Jing Zhou, Tao Peng, Guo-Dong Lu, Jigang Wang

Retraction Note: Circular RNA circDCUN1D4 suppresses hepatocellular carcinoma development via targeting the miR-590-5p/ TIMP3 axis

Hongyu Li, Bing Su, Yan Jiang, Boyang Zhang, Rulong Du, Can Song, Bin Hou, Kun Xu, Lida Wu, Yuchun Gu

BRRIAR lncRNA alters breast cancer risk by modulating interferon signaling in cis and in trans

Haran Sivakumaran, Sneha Nair, Mainá Bitar, Xue Lu, Lu Wang, Ji Liu, Deshapriya S. Karunarathne, P. Prakrithi, Sebastien Jacquelin, Isela Sarahi Rivera, Kristine M. Hillman, Susanne Kaufmann, Rebekah Ziegman, Wei Shi, Sarah Alexandrou, C. Elizabeth Caldon, Rakesh N. Veedu, Quan H. Nguyen, Jonathan Beesley, Michelle N. Wykes, Juliet D. French, Stacey L. Edwards

Multi-omic profiling provides insights into the heterogeneity, microenvironmental features, and biomarker landscape of small-cell lung cancer

  • Open Access
  • Research

Mingchao Xie, Miljenka Vuko, Shashank Saran, Siyu Liu, Andrew G. Chambers, Hana Baakza, Helen K. Angell, Felicia Ng, Carl M. Gay, Robert J. Cardnell, Felix J. Segerer, Alma Andoni, Jaime Rodriguez-Canales, Paul M. Waring, Markus Schick, J. Carl Barrett, Lauren A. Byers, Giulia Fabbri

Development and validation of a small extracellular vesicle-derived RNA signature for early diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma and prognosis in advanced stages

  • Open Access
  • Research

Rui Meng, Yanjun Gao, Zheng Peng, Hua Chen, Yida Li, Yu Liu, Lanxiao Shen, Huanle Pan, Liangcheng Zheng, Dezhi Cheng, Xiaoming Lin, Wenjie Sun, Congying Xie

Gut microbial metabolites in cancer immunomodulation

  • Open Access
  • Review

Hengshuo Liu, Xingyu Xiong, Weizhen Zhu, Sheng Wang, Weichao Huang, Guoqing Zhu, Hang Xu, Lu Yang

Synergistic innate-adaptive immunity by NKG2D-specific CAR-macrophages drives durable remission in hepatocellular carcinoma

  • Open Access
  • Research

Zihao Zhao, Wenjing Zheng, Yang He, Han Zhang, Lingling Zhang, Yi Huo, Junwei Jiang, Chen Zhang, Haohan Lyu, Weiwei Qin, Chen Liu, Feng Chang, Lequn Shan, Tao Wang, Wenjie Song

Extracellular vesicles cargo orchestration in colorectal cancer: immune evasion, stromal remodeling, and therapeutic frontiers

  • Open Access
  • Review

Yukang Lu, Xiulan Liu, Tingting Zhang, Meijin Liu, Xiaoyan Liu, Jinyou Qiu, Linghan Zhang, Zhenzhen Wen

Correction: Loss of the tumour suppressor LKB1/STK11 uncovers a leptin-mediated sensitivity mechanism to mitochondrial uncouplers for targeted cancer therapy

Andriani Angelopoulou, Giorgos Theocharous, Dimitrios Valakos, Aikaterini Polyzou, Sophia Magkouta, Vassilios Myrianthopoulos, Sophia Havaki, Marco Fiorillo, Ioanna Tremi, Konstantinos Vachlas, Theodoros Nisotakis, Dimitris-Foivos Thanos, Anastasia Pantazaki, Dimitris Kletsas, Jiri Bartek, Russell Petty, Dimitris Thanos, Rory J McCrimmon, Angelos Papaspyropoulos, Vassilis G Gorgoulis

Correction: YC-1 enhances the anti-tumor activity of sorafenib through inhibition of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) in hepatocellular carcinoma

Jian Kong, Fandong Kong, Jun Gao, Qiangbo Zhang, Shuying Dong, Fang Gu, Shan Ke, Bing Pan, Qiang Shen, Huichuan Sun, Lemin Zheng, Wenbing Sun

CircRNF10 sequestrates β-catenin by a dual regulatory circuit of direct degradation and a miR-1275/DKK3-mediated inhibition in driver gene- negative lung adenocarcinoma

  • Open Access
  • Research

Xiaohua Situ, Xinwei Wang, Xiting Liao, Xiaoxuan Zhang, Sicheng Chen, Fei Fang, Lihong Wei, Peng Wu, Zhiyu Liu, Honglei Chen, Kejing Tang, Lihong Bai, Zunfu Ke

Targeting OxLDL-mediated CD36 + CAF reprogramming potentiates PD-1 immunotherapy in osteosarcoma

  • Open Access
  • Research

Anyu Zeng, Hongmin Chen, Tianqi Luo, Weiqing Chen, Yihui Song, Yanyang Xu, Zhihao Chen, Qinglian Tang, Xiaojun Zhu, Chuangzhong Deng, Huaiyuan Xu, Anqi Wang, Hao Wu, Guohui Song, Jinchang Lu, Jin Wang

Sitravatinib plus tislelizumab in locally recurrent or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer: a multi-cohort, single-arm, phase II clinical trial (SPARK Trial)

  • Open Access
  • Research

Xi-Yu Liu, Xin-Yi Sui, Ying Xu, Fan Yang, Song-Yang Wu, Xiu-Zhi Zhu, Ke Zuo, Shuo-Wen Cao, Xi Jin, Li Chen, Lin-Xiaoxi Ma, Wen-Juan Zhang, Fu-Gui Ye, Fei-Lin Qu, Ding Ma, Yi Xiao, Gen-Hong Di, Guang-Yu Liu, Ke-Da Yu, Jiong Wu, Xin Hu, Yi-Zhou Jiang, Zhong-Hua Wang, Zhi-Ming Shao, Lei Fan

c-Rel drives pancreatic cancer metastasis through fibronectin-integrin signaling-induced isolation stress resistance and EMT

  • Open Access
  • Research

D. Bakırdöğen, K. Görgülü, J. Xin, L. Richter, S. Alcalá, L. Ruiz-Cañas, C. Dai, K. J. Frank, N. Wu, K. N. Diakopoulos, H. Ozturk, D. Demircioğlu, K. Peschke, R. Ranjan, F. Fusco, J. Martinez-Useros, M. J. Fernandez-Aceñero, N. F. Chhabra, J. C. López-Gil, J. Ai, D. A. Ruess, E. Kaya-Aksoy, F. Schmidt, L. Kohlmann, A. Berninger, H. Yang, F. Schicktanz, K. Steiger, I. E. Demir, R. M. Schmid, M. Reichert, M. Adli, M. Lesina, B. Sainz Jr., H. Algül

Local metastatic expansion versus secondary intra-organ dissemination: two causes of neurological death explained by fundamentally different metastatic colonization patterns

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  • Research

Dorde Komljenovic, Tobias Bäuerle, Jessica Alves-de-Lima, Laura Trigueros, Cara Dietz, Zoltan Winter, Tommaso Araceli, Quirin Strotzer, Christina Wendl, Matthias Brendel, Martin A. Proescholdt, Patrick N. Harter, Katja Evert, Tobias Pukrop, Raquel Blazquez

Platinum-based functional nanomaterials: mechanisms and therapeutic strategies in cancer radiotherapy sensitization

Yuanchao Cheng, Yakui Mou, Hanrui Wang, Hui Shen, Yue Hu, Xiaoyu Song, Mingjun Zhang, Yao Wang, Wanchen Liu, Ting Yang, Chao Ren, Miao Yan, Xicheng Song

Cancer-associated fibroblasts in the tumor microenvironment: heterogeneity, crosstalk mechanisms, and therapeutic implications

  • Open Access
  • Review

Ziyue Huang, Jie Chen, Tianyu Zhu, Jinxin Li, Ho Yin Ng, Yixiong Zhou, Xiang Gu, Shiqiong Xu, Renbing Jia

Next-generation CAR-T cells design: leveraging tumor features for enhanced efficacy

  • Open Access
  • Review

Yanna Lei, Ning Liu, Diyuan Qin, Ming Liu, Yongsheng Wang

Selective genome editing of amplified oncogenes triggers immunogenic cell death and tumor remodeling

  • Open Access
  • Research

A. Nieto-Sanchez, M. Martinez-Lage, P. Puig-Serra, S. Carpintero, A. Alonso-Yanez, P. Ojeda-Walczuk, M. Ibañez-Navarro, G. Pita, FJ. Moya, C. Moreno, MC. Martin, R. Alonso, R. Nuñez-Torres, VJ. Sanchez-Arevalo Lobo, L. Alonso-Guirado, N. Malats, A. Gonzalez-Neira, L. Fernandez, P. Roda-Navarro, R. Torres-Ruiz, S. Rodriguez-Perales

The METTL3-YTHDC1 axis mediates architectural RNA m6A modification to modulate the integrity of chromatin TADs in MLLr + AML genome

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Ruishuang Fu, Wenjuan Yu, Rongjie Zhao, Huimin Yang, Beibei Cao, Chunfei Dai, Haoyue Qianjiang, Yujun Xia, Lubo Wang, Jianrong Lu, Ruiqing Zhou, Aiqin Shi, Hanmei Lou, Xiang Zhang, Huacheng Luo

Histone lysine demethylases in breast cancer: molecular mechanisms, biological functions, and therapeutic intervention

  • Open Access
  • Review

Anqi Wang, Dianjun Qi, Yi Ma, Mozhi Wang, Haoran Dong, Chenxin Wang, Yingfan Zhang, Zheyuan Zhang, Lingwei Li, Jiayi Xu, Litong Yao, Yingying Xu

A pan-cancer single cell landscape reveals heterogeneity and functional diversity of double-negative T cells

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  • Research

Qing Hao, Tao Zhou, Huayun Yan, Zhixiang Ren, Wei Mao, Li-Bin Huang, Yue-yun Chen, Yuelan Wang, Minqin Xiao, Yajiao He, Xuyang Xia, Jing Wu, Wei-Han Zhang, Hai-Ning Chen, Maoxiang Qian, Feng Zhang, Li Yang, Lunzhi Dai, Huiyuan Zhang, Canhua Huang, Yang Shu, Yu Xu, Yang Luo, Yong Peng, Heng Xu

Metabolic characteristics in hepatocellular carcinoma: amino acid metabolic reprogramming

  • Open Access
  • Review

Ran Zhou, Yuejun Li, Guanghui Li, Yan Li, Lie Luo, Bin Wang, Liping Wang

Correction: Histone demethylase KDM4D promotes gastrointestinal stromal tumor progression through HIF1β/VEGFA signalling

  • Open Access
  • Correction

Fuqing Hu, Haijie Li, Lu Liu, Feng Xu, Senyan Lai, Xuelai Luo, Junbo Hu, Xi Yang

Correction: The chromosome 11q13.3 amplification associated lymph node metastasis is driven by miR-548k through modulating tumor microenvironment

  • Open Access
  • Correction

Weimin Zhang, Ruoxi Hong, Lin Li, Yan Wang, Peina Du, Yunwei Ou, Zitong Zhao, Xuefeng Liu, Wenchang Xiao, Dezuo Dong, Qingnan Wu, Jie Chen, Yongmei Song, Qimin Zhan

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on progress in colorectal cancer

CRC remains a major global health burden, but advances in screening, treatment, and lifestyle-based prevention continue to reshape clinical practice. Gain insights into how the latest research can be leveraged to optimize patient care across the CRC continuum.

Prof. Antoni Castells
Prof. Harpreet Wasan
Prof. Edward Giovannucci
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