- Dr. Al B Benson, MD
-87.62275
41.8944664
Dr. Al B Benson, MD
Internal Medicine
- Illinois, Chicago
Overview
Dr. Al B Benson, MD works in Chicago, Illinois is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Oncology and graduated University At Buffalo State University Of New York School Of Medicine in 1976. Dr. Benson is affiliated with Northwestern Memorial Hospital and practicing for 47 years
Specialties
- Internal Medicine
- Oncology
Conditions
• Aphasia• Arterial Dissections With Lentiginosis
• Arterial Revascularization
• Bilateral Cataracts
• Bile Duct Procedure
• Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
• Carcinoma
• Cervical Spine Reconstruction
• Chronic Headache
• Chronic Pain Management
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• Demyelinating Disorders
• Diseases Contagious from Safe Sex
• Excision or Destruction of Tongue Lesion
• External Ear Disorders
• Facet Joint Nerve Ablation
• Food Allergy - Fruit
• Food Allergy - Tree Nuts
• Functional Movement Screening
• Gastrointestinal Surgery, Laproscopic
• Hand Neuropathy
• Herbal Agent Adverse Reaction - Echinacea
• Implanon® Placement
• Knee Pain
• Marijuana Amotivational Syndrome
• Memory Disorders
• Mental Retardation, X-Linked Recessive - Macrocephaly - Ciliary Dysfunction
• Metabolic Rate Testing
• Microscopic Ulcerative Colitis
• Minimally Invasive Resection of Mediastinal Tumor
• Muscle Hypotonia
• Muscular Dystrophy, Congenital, Type 1C
• Neurofibromatosis, Type 2
• Ocular Myasthenia Gravis
• Optic Ataxia
• Outpatient and inpatient dialysis supervision and management [More]
• Photosensitivity
• Post-Dysenteric Arthropathy
• Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
• Retinoschisis, Autosomal Dominant
• Salivary Gland Stones
• Shoulder Fractures
• Skin Lesion
• Spleen Neoplasm
• Stitches
• The provision of follow-up treatment for patients who have undergone kidney transplants
• The provision of nutritional information for patients with kidney disease
• Thoracoscopic Segmentectomy
• Warts
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Procedures
• Acute Leukemia• Adrenal Gland Cancer
• Anal and Rectal Cancer
• Anemia
• Bile Duct Cancer
• Bladder Cancer
• Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
• Brain Cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Coagulation Disorders (incl. Hemophilia)
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• Colorectal Cancer
• ENT Cancer
• Esophageal Cancer
• Gallbladder and Biliary Tract Cancer
• Hodgkin's Disease
• Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)
• Leukocytosis
• Liver Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Lymphoma
• Macroglobulinemia (incl. Waldenstrom's )
• Marginal Zone Lymphoma
• Mediastinal Tumors, Malignant
• Meningiomas
• Myelodysplastic Syndromes
• Myeloma
• Myeloproliferative Disorders
• Neuroendocrine Tumors
• Neutropenia
• Nodular Lymphoma
• Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
• Oral Cancer
• Ovarian Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer
• Pancytopenia
• Pleural Neoplasm, Malignant
• Prostate Cancer
• Renal (Kidney) Cancer
• Secondary Malignancies
• Skin Cancer
• Small Intestine Cancer
• Soft Tissue Sarcoma
• Stomach and Small Intestine Cancer
• Stomach Cancer
• Testicular Cancer
• Thoracentesis
• Thrombocytosis
• Uterine Cancer
• Vulvar Cancer
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Board Certifications
- Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine
Years Since Graduation
- 47
State License
- Illinois
Education & Training
Medical School
University At Buffalo State University Of New York School Of Medicine
Buffalo, NY, United States
Graduated: 1976
Buffalo, NY, United States
Graduated: 1976
Fellowship Hospital
University Wisc Hosps
Madison, WI, USA
Year completed: 1984
Madison, WI, USA
Year completed: 1984
Awards
1 AACR
2 ACCC
3 ACP
4 AFCR
5 ASCO
6 ECOG
7 ESMO
8 NCCN
9 NSABP
10 PSR
11 RTOG
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Office Locations
Primary location
Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
675 North Saint Clair Street Suite 21 100
Illinois (IL)
Chicago
60611
Phone:(312) 695-0990
Additional data:
Free Standing Surgery Center? No
Office Volume: 520 patients per day
Performs Procedures On Site? Yes
Accepting New Patients
- Yes
Map & Directions
Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, 675 North Saint Clair Street Suite 21 100, Chicago, Illinois (IL), 60611
Insurances Accepted (check insurance plans)
- Aetna
- Aetna HMO
- Assurant Health
- Bakery & Confectionary Union Plan
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Choice Plus POS
- Choice Plus POS II
- Cigna
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Commercial Insurance Company
- CoreSource
- Coventry Health Care of Illinois
- Fallon Community Health Plan
- First Health (Coventry Health Care)
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Health and Life PPO
- HealthLink
- HealthLink PPO
- Humana
- LocalPlus
- Medicare
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan
- MultiPlan PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Options PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Platinum PPO
- Principal Life
- Priority Health
- United Healthcare
- UnitedHealthCare
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