A baby girl kissed on the head by Pope Francis has amazingly defied the odds and beaten a brain tumor after being given just months to live, mirror.co.uk.
Gianna Masciantonio was just a year old when the pope blessed her as he traveled through the streets of Philadelphia in September 2015.
The 81-year-old pontiff had no idea the youngster had a brain tumor when she was held up to his Popemobile as it passed by. Gianna's family has revealed almost three years on that a tumor has disappeared after she underwent chemotherapy.
Now aged three, Gianna had been diagnosed with Histiocytosis, a blood disorder that occurs when there is an over-production of white blood cells called histiocytes.
The disorder formed the tumor in the girl's head.
She had surgery when she was just four-months-old, and doctors didn't think she would make it to her first birthday. Read full info here
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