PALO ALTO, Calif. -- 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 cervical cancer. A slow-growing cancer that forms in the cervix, cervical cancer is usually caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) infection. The National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health and is heavily represented in today’s rankings, estimates over 12,000 new cases and 4,000 deaths in 2013 from this disease.

Expertscape.com would like to recognize the advancements that these ten individual experts and institutions (http://www.expertscape.com/leaders/cervical-cancer) have made to the understanding and treatment of cervical cancer:

World's Leading Experts – Cervical Cancer
1. Dr. Mark Schiffman – NIH Bethesda
2. Dr. Philip Castle – NIH Bethesda
3. Dr. Mark Arbyn – Scientific Institute of Public Health
4. Dr. Eduardo Franco – McGill University
5. Dr. Bradley Monk – University of California Irvine
6. Dr. Diane Solomon – National Cancer Institute Rockville
7. Dr. Nicolas Wentzensen – National Cancer Institute Rockville
9. Dr. Silvia Franceschi – International Agency for Research on Cancer Lyon
10. Dr. Christine Haie-Meder – Institut Gustave Roussy

World's Leading Institutions – Cervical Cancer
1. University of Texas Houston
2. NIH Bethesda
3. Johns Hopkins University
4. Washington University
5. Brigham and Women's Hospital
6. University of Washington
7. Institut Gustave Roussy
8. University of California San Francisco
9. University of California Irvine
10. Columbia University

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

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