Key takeaways:

A substantial number of adults do not know about HPV or the HPV vaccine.

Most adults may lack awareness that HPV causes oral cancer, not just cervical cancer.

Approximately a third of adults in the U.S. may lack awareness of HPV and the HPV vaccine.

A cross-sectional analysis also showed more than 70% may not know HPV causes oral cancer or other noncervical cancer malignancies.

Data derived from Garg A, et al. JAMA Oncol. 2025;doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2025.2638.

Ashvita Garg

“It was very striking to see that there is still that much unawareness about HPV,” Ashvita Garg, PhD, MPH, MBBS, postdoctoral fellow at Hollings Cancer Center at Medical University of South Carolina, told Healio.

HPV-associated cancers

HPV has associations with six different malignancy types —

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