On Mayo Clinic Radio, vaccine specialist Dr. Gregory Poland discusses the importance of the HPV vaccine. Dr. Poland also will provide the latest update on Zika virus. Also on the program, oncologist Dr. Timothy Moynihan discusses the link between obesity and increased risk for at least 13 types of cancer. And vascular and endovascular surgeon Dr. Gustavo Oderich explains how a new type of stent has improved surgical options for treating complex aortic aneurysms.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that each year, about 14 million Americans become infected with HPV. Most of those infected are teenagers or young adults. A vaccine was introduced in 2006 to help prevent HPV-related cancers, but a decade later, the HPV vaccine continues to be the most underutilized childhood immunization, and especially so for boys. On the next Mayo Clinic Radio program, vaccine specialist Dr. Gregory Poland will discuss the importance of the HPV vaccine. Dr. Poland also will provide the latest update on Zika virus. Also on the program, oncologist Dr. Timothy Moynihan discusses the link between obesity and increased risk for at least 13 types of cancer. And vascular and endovascular surgeon Dr. Gustavo Oderich explains how a new type of stent has improved surgical options for treating complex aortic aneurysms.

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175,000 deaths are reported each year around the world, due to aortic aneurysms. When the largest blood vessel in the body, the aorta, dilates like an overstretched balloon it can be life-threatening.

Mayo Clinic vascular surgeon Gustavo Oderich, M.D., and his team are helping to develop new stents for complex aortic aneurysms and recently used it to treat the first patient in the United States.

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Watch: A Very Close Call for Mr. Hall: Aortic Aneurysm

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It was just supposed to be wrist surgery. But when Ron Hall, an 80-year-old retired structural steel worker from Blue Earth, Minnesota, was preparing for his procedure, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports, doctors noticed something else. They discovered that the major artery that carries blood through his stomach was "in high danger of rupturing." When given this news, Ron and his wife, Val, considered their options. And then, Val says her "brain clicked on that we were near the Mayo Clinic."

At Mayo's Rochester campus, Ron came under the care of surgeon Gustavo Oderich, M.D., and received a treatment he likely wouldn't have received elsewhere. He became the first person in the country to receive an experimental abdominal aortic stent that would help "shore up" the "bulge in his abdominal aorta." That was possible, the newspaper reports, because Mayo Clinic is one of the "handful of medical facilities across the country" to have approval from the U.S. government to carry out applied research, or "early feasibility studies," on the device.
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