OncotargetPub Date : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28860
Ziliang Wang, Yang Liu, Lili Lu, Lina Yang, Sheng Yin, Yan Wang, Zihao Qi, Jiao Meng, Rongyu Zang, Gong Yang
{"title":"Retraction: Fibrillin-1, induced by Aurora-A but inhibited by BRCA2, promotes ovarian cancer metastasis.","authors":"Ziliang Wang, Yang Liu, Lili Lu, Lina Yang, Sheng Yin, Yan Wang, Zihao Qi, Jiao Meng, Rongyu Zang, Gong Yang","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28860","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28860","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"17 1","pages":"201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13112246/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147777648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OncotargetPub Date : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28897
Yang Xiao, Usenko Alexander Yurievich, Smorzhevskyi Valentyn Yosypovych
{"title":"Retraction: Long noncoding RNA XIST is a prognostic factor in colorectal cancer and inhibits 5-fluorouracil-induced cell cytotoxicity through promoting thymidylate synthase expression.","authors":"Yang Xiao, Usenko Alexander Yurievich, Smorzhevskyi Valentyn Yosypovych","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28897","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28897","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"17 1","pages":"330-331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13637831/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148345831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OncotargetPub Date : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28903
Joshua E Allen, Wafik S El-Deiry
{"title":"Editorial Note: Calcein-effluxing human colon cancer cells are enriched for self-renewal capacity and depend on β-catenin.","authors":"Joshua E Allen, Wafik S El-Deiry","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28903","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"17 1","pages":"353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13637839/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148689688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gut feeling: Microbes at the heart of cancer therapy.","authors":"Uzma Saqib, Sakina Ratlamwala, Monika Pandey, Krishnan Hajela","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28919","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"17 1","pages":"430-433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13637953/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149025668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OncotargetPub Date : 2026-01-03DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28824
Charlotte Kuperwasser, Wafik S El-Deiry
{"title":"COVID vaccination and post-infection cancer signals: Evaluating patterns and potential biological mechanisms.","authors":"Charlotte Kuperwasser, Wafik S El-Deiry","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28824","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28824","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A growing number of peer-reviewed publications have reported diverse cancer types appearing in temporal association with COVID-19 vaccination or infection. To characterize the nature and scope of these reports, a systematic literature search from January 2020 to October 2025 was conducted based on specified eligibility criteria. A total of 69 publications met inclusion criteria: 66 article-level reports describing 333 patients across 27 countries, 2 retrospective population-level investigations (Italy: ~300,000 cohort, and Korea: ~8.4 million cohort) quantified cancer incidence and mortality trends among vaccinated populations, and one longitudinal analysis of ~1.3 million US miliary service members spanning the pre-pandemic through post-pandemic periods. Most of the studies documented hematologic malignancies (non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, cutaneous lymphomas, leukemias), solid tumors (breast, lung, melanoma, sarcoma, pancreatic cancer, and glioblastoma), and virus-associated cancers (Kaposi and Merkel cell carcinoma). Across reports, several recurrent themes emerged: (1) unusually rapid progression, recurrence, or reactivation of preexisting indolent or controlled disease, (2) atypical or localized histopathologic findings, including involvement of vaccine injection sites or regional lymph nodes, and (3) proposed immunologic links between acute infection or vaccination and tumor dormancy, immune escape, or microenvironmental shifts. The predominance of case-level observations and early population-level data demonstrates an early phase of potential safety-signal detection. These findings underscore the need for rigorous epidemiologic, longitudinal, clinical, histopathological, forensic, and mechanistic studies to assess whether and under what conditions COVID-19 vaccination or infection may be linked with cancer.</p>","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"17 ","pages":"1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12893478/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145912534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
OncotargetPub Date : 2026-01-03DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.28823
Wafik S El-Deiry
{"title":"Hypothesis: HPV E6 and COVID spike proteins cooperate in targeting tumor suppression by p53.","authors":"Wafik S El-Deiry","doi":"10.18632/oncotarget.28823","DOIUrl":"10.18632/oncotarget.28823","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is a causative agent in several cancers including cervical cancer, head and neck cancer, anal cancer, penile, vulvar and vaginal cancers. HPV through its virus-encoded protein E6 and the cellular E6-Associated Protein (E6-AP) target the tumor suppressor p53 protein for degradation thereby contributing to cancer development after HPV infection. As viruses cause cancer, the author previously hypothesized that SARS-COV-2 virus may be associated with cancer. More recent insights on the present hypothesis have come from studies suggesting (1) Spike protein of SARS-COV-2 may suppress p53 function, (2) cancer has been associated with mRNA vaccines that produce Spike, and (3) a case mentioned by Dr. Patrick Soon Shiong of a patient who survived HPV-associated head and neck cancer, but the tumor recurred after COVID mRNA vaccination including with liver metastases. Thus, the present hypothesis is that virally encoded proteins such as HPV-E6 or SARS-COV-2 Spike may cooperate in suppressing host defenses including tumor suppressor mechanisms involving p53. The hypothesis can be further explored through epidemiologic and laboratory studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":19499,"journal":{"name":"Oncotarget","volume":"17 ","pages":"30-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12893477/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145912481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}