RADIATION BIOECOLOGY AND THERAPY TAKING INTO ACCAUNT THE AUGER EFFECT

A characteristic feature of the living organism's environment is the presence of virtually 100% chemical elements with a nuclear charge z of less than 10. This means that when exposed to radiation from an external source with any high-energy particles, this irradiation, in up to 99.9% of cases, causes the Auger effect in the near-surface zone of the target. This necessitates the introduction of a new class of particles in the living organism—internally generated multiply charged ions with a positive charge of two or more. Previously, this class of particles was not considered or accounted for as a biomedical factor. The radiation therapy protocol must apparently also take into account that the average actual time for tumor volume to double is 90-100 days, which means that the main part of the preclinical phase of its growth is formed over the course of seven to ten years. The physicist is forced to further restrict his subject matter, contenting himself with depicting the simplest phenomena accessible to our experience, whereas all complex phenomena cannot be recreated by the human mind with the precision and consistency required by the theoretical physicist. Higher accuracy, clarity, and certainty come at the expense of completeness (A. Einstein).