News & Events
Local TV Station Speaks to Patient about CyberKnife Experience
KTVN-TV Health Watch anchor, Wendy Damonte, recently visited our center to speak with Margaret Larson about her cancer journey and experience with CyberKnife treatment. Larson was treated for lung metastases by Medical Director Dr. Jonathan Tay.
Lung Cancer Awareness Month A Time to Take Action
As a disease that annually takes the lives of more people than breast, prostate, colon and pancreatic cancers combined, lung cancer will kill more than 156,000 people in the United States this year, according to the American Cancer Society. Additionally, about a quarter of a million people will face a lung cancer diagnosis.
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month — a time to take action, quit smoking, educate loved ones and raise awareness for the leading cause of cancer deaths in men and women.
Prostate Cancer: Awareness Month a Time to Learn Risk Factors
One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime while one in 36 men will die of the disease, which the American Cancer Society names as the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men. This year alone nearly 250,000 men will face a prostate cancer diagnosis.
In Washoe County, about 138 of every 100,000 men are affected, according to the National Cancer Institute.
Reno CyberKnife Congratulates Saint Mary’s for Breast Accreditation
Reno CyberKnife congratulates Saint Mary’s Center for Cancer on becoming the first program in Nevada to receive accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers.
The distinction recognizes Saint Mary’s for meeting rigorous standards for quality of care. The breast program and Reno CyberKnife are part of the broad team of cancer specialists serving Saint Mary’s Center for Cancer, accredited as a Community Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Program by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer.
The Center for Cancer offers an array of services ranging from the latest treatment advances to nutritional and spiritual care.
AAUW Tour of Reno CyberKnife
Dr. Jonathan Tay explains the benefits of CyberKnife treatment to members of the American Association of University Women during a recent visit the group made to the center.
NCET Tour of Reno CyberKnife
Medical Director Dr. Jonathan Tay speaks to a group from the Nevada Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology during a recent tour of the CyberKnife center. Pictured with the CyberKnife, Dr. Tay explains how the technology offers important noninvasive treatment options for patients.
Bill Manders Interviews Dr. Tay of Reno CyberKnife
Dr. Tay Interview
September 8, 2010
Saint Mary’s and Sierra Neurosurgery Group partner to speed up time between brain cancer diagnosis and treatment
Saint Mary’s and Sierra Neurosurgery Group have partnered to create the region’s first Brain Tumor Center in an effort to speed up the time between diagnosis and treatment. Modeled after some of the premier referral cancer centers in the country, Saint Mary’s Brain Tumor Center enables newly diagnosed patients the rare opportunity to meet with two specialists at the same time to develop an effective treatment plan.
Through the Saint Mary’s Brain Tumor Center, patients with newly diagnosed malignant and benign brain tumors meet simultaneously with neurosurgeon Hilari Fleming, MD, Ph.D., as well as a radiation oncologist, either Jonathan Tay, MD, or Katie Legarza, MD. MORE →
Reno CyberKnife Segment on KTVN
Dr. Tay on Nevada Newsmakers with Sam Shad – Part 1
Dr. Jonathan Tay interview on Nevada Newsmakers. Segment air date April 1, 2009.