Top Medical Specialists in Thyroid Cancer

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Dec. 18, 2013 - PRLog -- As part of its continuing effort to highlight expertise and excellence in healthcare, Expertscape.com is very pleased to recognize the top institutions and medical specialists in the world in thyroid cancer research and treatment. The thyroid is an organ located at the base of the throat, responsible for the creation and distribution of hormones that help to regulate critical body functions like weight, heart rate, body temperature, and blood pressure.  As the most common endocrine cancer, the American Cancer Society estimates that there will be about 62,000 cases of thyroid cancer in the U.S. with about 75% of those diagnosed being women. And while the success rate for treatment is considered high, the estimate is that 1,850 Americans will die from the disease.

Expertscape.com would like to recognize the contribution that these ten individual experts and institutions (http://www.expertscape.com/leaders/thyroid-cancer) have made to advance our ability to understand and treat thyroid cancer:

     World Experts – Thyroid Cancer
     1.     Dr. Martin Schlumberger - Institut Gustave Roussy
     2.     Dr. Furio Pacini - Universita degli Studi di Siena
     3.     Dr. Ashok Shaha - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
     4.     Dr. Robert Tuttle - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
     5.     Dr. Steven Sherman - MD Anderson Cancer Center
     6.     Dr. Henning Dralle - Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg
     7.     Dr. Mingzhao Xing - Johns Hopkins University
     8.     Dr. Yuri Nikiforov - University of Pittsburgh
     9.     Dr. Christoph Reiners - Universitat Wurzburg
     10.   Dr. Massimo Santoro - University of Naples Federico II

     World Institutions – Thyroid Cancer
     1.     Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - New York City
     2.     Johns Hopkins University
     3.     MD Anderson Cancer Center
     4.     University of Pisa
     5.     Ohio State University
     6.     University of Naples Federico II
     7.     Institut Gustave Roussy
     8.     Mayo Clinic
     9.     University of Pittsburgh
     10.   University of California San Francisco

To view Expertscape’s comprehensive results for thyroid cancer, covering hundreds of institutions and thousands of specialists worldwide, visit http://expertscape.com/ex/thyroid+neoplasms

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