<img src="https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/new-study-uncovers-key-2-scaled.jpg" alt="Physicists explain the reasons for the high efficiency of heavy ion cancer therapy"/>A new study has revealed the key mechanism of this type of therapy – interatomic Coulomb decay (ICD) in an aqueous medium, initiated by heavy ion irradiation. It turned out that the transfer of protons between water molecules generates hydroxyl radicals and hydrated protons in living tissue, which destroy DNA. Scientists from China, Russia and Germany worked on the findings.
