Walter Heindel and Stefanie Weigel receive Hufeland Prize

Award for ToSyMa study

The University Rector Johannes Wessels (l.) traveled to Cologne especially to co
The University Rector Johannes Wessels (l.) traveled to Cologne especially to congratulate the new Hufeland Prize winners Stefanie Weigel and Walter Heindel during the ceremony. © M. Thürbach
This year the prestigious Hufeland Prize went to Walter Heindel and Stefanie Weigel. The 20,000 euro award from the Hufeland Foundation, which recognizes outstanding achievements in preventive medicine, was given to the two researchers for their work on optimizing mammography, more specifically for their "Systematic Screening for Early Breast Cancer Detection: Comparison of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis [DBT] plus Synthetic 2D Mammography with Digital 2D Mammography in the Randomized Controlled Diagnostic Superiority Trial ToSyMa."

Breast cancer is the most common tumor disease not only in Germany, but now worldwide. ...
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