Student or educator? Sign up with your school email and get 6 months of Pro free.
Cited by 1,051

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 194 of the 194 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Targeting metastatic cancer

Open access
Ganesh, Karuna, Massagué, Joan·2021·Nature Medicine

Abstract

Despite recent therapeutic advances in cancer treatment, metastasis remains the principal cause of cancer death. Recent work has uncovered the unique biology of metastasis-initiating cells that results in tumor growth in distant organs, evasion of immune surveillance and co-option of metastatic microenvironments. Here we review recent progress that is enabling therapeutic advances in treating both micro- and macrometastases. Such insights were gained from cancer sequencing, mechanistic studies and clinical trials, including of immunotherapy. These studies reveal both the origins and nature of metastases and identify new opportunities for developing more effective strategies to target metastatic relapse and improve patient outcomes. Increased understanding of the biology of metastases allows improved targeting and outcomes for patients with both micro- and macrometastases.

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1038/s41591-020-01195-4

Cites

194 of 194 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cites

Show all 194 references

Cited by

See all 1,051

Metadata

Authors
Ganesh, K., & Massagué, J.
Venue
Nature Medicine
Published
2021-01
Volume
27
Issue
1
Pages
34-44
ISSN
  • 1078-8956 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-170X
OpenAlex
W3118790373
Cited by
1,051
References
194
FWCI
55.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
green

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Targeting metastatic cancer. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1038/s41591-020-01195-4
The paper
Ganesh, K., & Massagué, J. (2021). Targeting metastatic cancer. Nature Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-01195-4

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.