Why is that when you see the commercial for HPV?

Question

they show a bunch of women, like if this is a womens diseases, isn't it a male diseasess too being as though most women who say they contracted it got it from a man,
What trigured this question is because a girl just asked a question about HPV.

Answer 1

They show women because HPV is mainly associated with cervical cancer, which is obviously a women's issue. Almost all cervical cancer cases are caused from HPV. In fact, cervical cancer is the second most common kind of cancer in women (after breast cancer), killing about 4,000 women a year!

HPV does affect men, don't get me wrong. But, HPV doesn't affect mens health nearly as much as a woman's health. Men can develop genital warts from HPV, but these are usually treated fairly easy. Men can also develop penile and anal cancer from HPV but this is really rare and usually happens at a much older age (we're talking 50+).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_cancer

Answer 2

Banzai (Answerer #1) had most of it covered and gave you a good answer.

But more points you should know:
1. HPV can cause rectal, anal and penile cancer in men. However, incidence of this is extremely rare, esp. compared to cervical cancer (which is still the #1 cancer in women in many parts of the world).
2. Gardasil was tested in women, and clinical trials have shown it only effective in women so far. further testing will be needed ot determine its efficacy in men. But rather than wait for those results, it was better to put the vax out on the market for women ASAP.
3. There is no clinically available test to detect HPV in men. Right now, men will only ever know they have HPV if they show symptoms (warts or those rare cancers). Fewer than 1% of infected men will ever show symptoms of HPV.

Answer 3

yeah, it's a male disease too, but it's clinically much more important for women, as it is the necessary precursor to cervical cancer.

you can't get cervical cancer without HPV, so in a sense it CAN be a life-threatening illness to a woman, whereas to a man, it's just a really gross annoyance

Answer 4

If you ever sat there and paid attention to porn you would realize more women have it then men do…. women are more likely to get it