Early Detection at Dana-Farber Helps Patient Avoid Unnecessary Treatment

<p>In February 2024, while being treated for pneumonia, doctors noticed that Rebecca Santorelli’s spleen was enlarged.&#160; “No one was concerned at first,” recalls Santorelli, 61, who lives outside of Albany, New York.&#160;&#160; Doctors estimate spleen size with fingerbreadths — or approximate widths of a finger — below the rib cage, with normal being about zero. ... <a class="read-more" href="https://blog.dana-farber.org/insight/2025/12/early-detection-at-dana-farber-helps-patient-avoid-unnecessary-treatment/" title="Early…