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Oncology Surgery

UNLV Health doctors are here to help, providing respectful, compassionate, and highly advanced surgical oncology care.

Services and Treatments

Surgical Oncology

  • Breast surgery
  • Breast biopsy
  • Endocrine & Thyroid tumors
  • Gastrointestinal tumors
  • Liver ablation
  • Melanomas 
  • Minimally invasive surgery
  • Pancreas, liver, bile duct tumors & disorders
  • Robotic surgery
  • Sarcoma
Article BY PAUL HARASIM

Patient’s Experience with UNLV Health ‘Couldn’t Have Gone Better’

Dr Baynosa

Throughout treatment for breast cancer, Cornelia ‘Connie’ Jackson found Jennifer Baynosa, MD, and the UNLV Health General Surgery Clinic staff to be ’so caring and so professional.’

Between 2009 and 2022, Cornelia “Connie” Jackson had three abnormal mammograms. The nagging worry that accompanied the first two – both turned out to be false alarms – was practically nonexistent by the time she was told last year she needed another follow-up exam.

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Surgeon Encourages Minority Students to Pursue Medical Careers

The story that ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal last May was compelling. Mary Kay Duda’s life was saved by UNLV Medicine’s Dr. Charles St. Hill.

St. Hill, one of only three fellowship-trained surgical oncologists in Nevada, performed a complex 10-hour surgery known as a Whipple procedure to remove a large tumor that enveloped her pancreas.

“I’ve been given the gift of life,” a grateful Duda would later tell St. Hill and reporter Jessie Bekker.

Inspirational Goals

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Dr. Jennifer Baynosa, Surgical Oncologist

Dr. Jennifer Baynosa

From her extended family what Dr. Jennifer Baynosa often heard as a child was that one day she would find a nice man, fall in love, get married, and have a family.

Taking care of her children and her husband, preparing their meals and washing their clothes, was the future that would be hers.