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

Well it is a virus and its DNA becomes incorporated into the host’s cell causing an increase in oncogene expression. This eventually overwhelms the control of the host’s cell causing it to malfunction and transform to the point where it becomes cancerous