Walter Heindel and Stefanie Weigel receive Hufeland Prize

Award for ToSyMa study. 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. "Systematic early breast cancer detection through mammography screening, along with new treatment options, forms an important pillar in the fight against breast cancer," emphasized Dr. Klaus Reinhardt, President of the German Medical Association, in his speech at the award ceremony. In the ToSyMa study - currently the world's largest research project in this field - the interdisciplinary working group led by Walter Heindel and Stefanie Weigel at the University of Münster and the Department of Radiology at the University Hospital examined almost 100,000 women to determine whether a further development of mammography can detect breast cancer significantly more frequently than the standard procedure.