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To address these challenges, we propose GRAFT, a Graph-Aware Fusion Transformer. This framework learns modality-specific features from protein-protein interactions, pathway co-occurrence, and gene semantic similarity using a multi-view graph encoder. These representations are further enriched with two auxiliary feature types: structural encodings derived from network topology and functional embeddings guided by curated gene sets. The integrated features are then processed by a transformer backbone, where a novel edge-attention bias makes the model explicitly sensitive to the underlying graph topologies, enabling the effective modeling of both local and global dependencies. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that GRAFT achieves competitive performance with leading state-of-the-art methods in pan-cancer analysis, while consistently delivering superior predictive accuracy across numerous specific cancer types. 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