Las Vegas Cyberknife at Summerlin

Specialties

Las Vegas Cyberknife at Summerlin offers patients new hope. The most advanced form and delivery system for Radiation Therapy/​Radiation Treatment called Stereotactic RadioSurgery (SRS) or Stereotactic Body RadioTherapy (SBRT): Cyberknife VSI

Benefits:

1. Treatments are reduced to 1 time per day for 5 days VS 8 to 9 weeks on other technologies (IMRT)

2. The «knife» simply stands for removing a tumor with surgical precision (within a millimeter), non-​invasively. There is NO cutting, NO anesthesia, NO blood, and limited to NO side effects.

3. Now an option for recurrent tumors.

*SRS = Treating conditions in the Brain, Head and Neck:

–Cyberknife VSI has No requirement for bolt on head frames like the Gamma Knife.

SBRT = Treatments throughout the body:

–Cyberknife VSI is the only technology in the world that detects, tracks, corrects for movement and treats tumors in motion (consider Lung, Liver, Prostate, Kidney) all of which have significant movement during treatment.

History

Established in 2010.

Las Vegas CyberKnife® at Summerlin was established in 2010 to bring the most innovative and advanced technology to Southern Nevada. The robotic technology of CyberKnife® offers patients with tumors a painless, non-​invasive treatment alternative that requires no anesthesia and offers shorter recovery times. CyberKnife® uses computer-​operated robotics and image guidance technology to treat hard-​to-​reach tumors. It tracks and destroys tumors in the body or brain while accounting for the patient’s breathing, which can cause tumors to move during the procedure, and eliminates the need for patients to wear an invasive stereotactic head frame to target localization. Additionally, CyberKnife’s® sub-​millimeter accuracy eliminates damage to healthy tissue surrounding the tumor site. Las Vegas CyberKnife® at Summerlin was made possible through a partnership between Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada’s radiation oncologists, Select HealthCare Solutions and Summerlin Hospital.

Meet the Manager

Raul Meoz MD F.

Manager

Dr. Meoz joined Nevada Radiation Oncology Centers in 1985. The group is now named Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada. Prior to moving to Nevada, Dr. Meoz was Assistant Radiotherapist and Assistant Professor of Radiotherapy at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center from 1980 through 1983. He was in private practice in radiation oncology from September 1983 through August 1985, and during that period, he served as Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas. Dr. Meoz has authored and co-​authored numerous scientific papers and has been a speaker in several national and international conferences in the field of oncology and radiation therapy. In 2001, Dr. Meoz was awarded fellowship with the American College of Radiology. He is a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Nevada School of Medicine and Touro University. He is currently the Medical Director for the Las Vegas CyberKnife® at Summerlin