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Sound waves do not damage DNA and thus do not cause cancer
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Hello,
Thanks for posting your query on 'Ask A Doctor' forum.
Sound waves travel at different speeds in different media.
The speed of sound waves is different in the air, water, and solid.
When you keep headphones over the skin, the sound waves are entering a solid and liquid media.
Skin, muscles, and bones form solid media. Blood in blood vessels forms liquid media.
The sound waves travel at different speeds when you keep the headphones on the skin.
The sound waves are vibrations and these vibrations do not cause damage to DNA.
Sound waves are different from ultraviolet and infrared waves which can cause damage at the DNA level and thus various cancers.
I hope I have answered your query.
Thanks and take care
Dr. Shailja Puri

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