Eli5 if HPV is a sexually transmitted infection why can it cause so many kinds of cancers, specifically in women?

Question

Between the commercials & decades of preventative measures available to people as young as teenagers, why isn’t general causation info more transparent?

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Answer 1

And FYI: It causes head, neck and throat cancers in MEN. People like Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas, Graham Chapman and George Harrison all have had throat cancers due to HPV and some have died. It is not a disease that only women get!!!!!