Dr. Daniel Albo

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  The driving force behind the formation of the new Colorectal Cancer Center at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center is its director, Daniel Albo, M.D., Ph.D., chief of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology at the MEDVAMC and assistant professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.
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  The driving force behind the formation of the new center is its director, Daniel Albo, M.D., Ph.D., chief of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology at the MEDVAMC and assistant professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.Albo assembled a multi-disciplinary team comprised of surgeons, hematology specialists, surgical oncologists, nurses, physician assistants, surgical residents, social workers, and radiologists.Recruitment for an additional surgical oncologist has also begun.
  
  Three other key components of the new center are a large database already established by Albo with information on patient with colorectal cancer diagnosed at the MEDVAMC in the last 10 years, a large tissue sample database, and tissue and blood sample repositories.These tools will allow MEDVAMC surgeons and physicians to follow recently diagnosed patients, track the progress of patients who have received treatment, and analyze patient data.
  
  " Colon and rectal cancer can be very lethal.More than half of individuals with colorectal cancer have a chance of reoccurrence.Of those patients, 85 percent reoccur in the first two and half years.Recent studies have shown that intense follow up during this period leads to earlier detection, higher rates of therapeutic resection for recurrences, and an improvement in patient outcomes," said Albo.

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  Gene Guinn Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award Presented to Dr. Daniel Albo
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  Daniel Albo, MD PhD
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  Gene Guinn Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award Presented to Dr. Daniel Albo
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  Daniel Albo, MD
  
  Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Albo, Assistant Professor in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who recently received the 2005 Gene Guinn Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award from the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.

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  The driving force behind the formation of the new center is its director, Daniel Albo, M.D., Ph.D., chief of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology at the MEDVAMC and assistant professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.Albo assembled a multi-disciplinary team comprised of surgeons, hematology specialists, surgical oncologists, nurses, physician assistants, surgical residents, social workers, and radiologists.Recruitment for an additional surgical oncologist has also begun.
  
  Three other key components of the new center are a large database already established by Albo with information on patient with colorectal cancer diagnosed at the MEDVAMC in the last 10 years, a large tissue sample database, and tissue and blood sample repositories.These tools will allow MEDVAMC surgeons and physicians to follow recently diagnosed patients, track the progress of patients who have received treatment, and analyze patient data.
  
  "Colon and rectal cancer can be very lethal.More than half of individuals with colorectal cancer have a chance of reoccurrence.Of those patients, 85 percent reoccur in the first two and half years.Recent studies have shown that intense follow up during this period leads to earlier detection, higher rates of therapeutic resection for recurrences, and an improvement in patient outcomes," said Albo.

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  Gene Guinn Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award Presented to Dr. Daniel Albo
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  Gene Guinn Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award Presented to Dr. Daniel Albo
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  Daniel Albo, MD
  
  Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Albo, Assistant Professor in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who recently received the 2005 Gene Guinn Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award from the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.

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  Gene Guinn Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award Presented to Dr. Daniel Albo
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  Daniel Albo, MD
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  Gene Guinn Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award Presented to Dr. Daniel Albo
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  Daniel Albo, MD
  
  Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Albo, Assistant Professor in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who recently received the 2005 Gene Guinn Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award from the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.

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  Daniel Albo, MD
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  Daniel Albo, MD
  
  Daniel Albo, M.D., Assistant Professor in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of General Surgery at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, recently received a three-year appointment as Cancer Liaison Physician for the Hospital Cancer Program at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

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  Dr. Daniel Albo
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  Dr. Daniel Albo
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  Dr. Daniel Albo is the chief of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
  
  "Once the array is in proper position, then we turn on the generator and what happens is that the localized electrical application produces a very well-circumscribed area of very intense heat right around the tip of these probes that essentially, for lack of a better term, cooks the tumor."
  
  Because the heat is so localized, it doesn't damage the surrounding healthy portions of the liver and because of the small incisions, patients are often on their feet in a matter of days.Albo says VA doctors are treating more liver tumors, in particalar an aggressive form of carcinoma.
  
  "It's one of the fastest, if not the fastest, rising form of malignancy in this country these days and a lot of it is associated with a sharp-rising incidence of hepatitus c and also b. Our patient population has a fairly high incidence of these problems and we're seeing these with an alarmingly high frequency and the frequency is increasing."
  
  Doctors are also using a process called chemoembolization, in which the blood supply to liver tumors is cut-off and high-dose chemotherapy drugs are injected directly into the tumor.Albo says the combination treatment often creates more time for cancer patients waiting for transplanted livers.
  
  "For a lot of these patients with more advanced forms of the disease we're using these chemoembolization and RFA combination treatments as a bridge to transplantation to control the disease until the time that the liver becomes available and they can be candidates for a liver transplantation."
  
  Albo says although laparoscopic RFA and chemoembolization aren't cures for liver cancer, they do improve the quality of life for patients.

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  Published on: 4/30/2007    Last Visited: 4/30/2007  

  Dr. Daniel Albo,
  
  Debakey VA Medical Center

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  Recorder - Daniel Albo, MD, PhD

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  Published on: 12/6/2005    Last Visited: 12/17/2005  

  VA Hospital Chief of Surgical Oncology Dr. Daniel Albo says the new center was needed for two reasons: colorectal cancer is increasingly common in military veterans, and treating it is getting so complex.
  
  Dr. Albo says the cancer center has surgeons and specialists from a wide range of disciplines providing timely evaluation, treatments and therapies.There's also a database of information on all the cancer patients the Houston VA hospital has treated in the past ten years, a large tissue sample database, large repositories of tissue and blood samples, and it's all under one roof.
  
  Dr. Albo says the Houston center is drawing cancer patients from all over the southern United States, because Hurricane Katrina did so much damage to other VA medical centers in New Orleans and other points east on the Interstate Ten corridor.

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