Top Medical Specialists in Spinal Tumors

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Jan. 9, 2014 - PRLog -- As part of its continuing effort program to highlight expertise and excellence in healthcare, Expertscape.com takes pleasure in recognizing the world's top institutions and medical specialists in the research and treatment of spinal tumors. Defined as either cancerous or non-cancerous growth of cells in or around the spinal column, spinal tumors are largely metastatic, meaning they arise first in other parts of the body and the travel to the spine.

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

     World Experts – Spinal Tumors
     1.     Dr. Ziya Gokaslan – Johns Hopkins University
     2.     Dr. Mark Bilsky – Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
     3.     Dr. Daniel Sciubba – Johns Hopkins University
     4.     Dr. Meic Schmidt – University of Utah
     5.     Dr. Peter Gerszten – University of Pittsburgh

     World Institutions – Spinal Tumors
     1.     Johns Hopkins University
     2.     University of Toronto
     3.     University of Utah
     4.     Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
     5.     MD Anderson Cancer Center

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

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