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Doctors save Ecuador mom

Tatiana Franco-Rosero, of Ecuador, was told last year

by doctors in her homeland that she would have only about a year to live.

Franco-Rosero, 28, a mother of two boys under 10, had developed a rare

apple-sized growth on the roof of her mouth. She couldn't eat, had lost more

than 40 pounds and could not receive the treatment she needed from local

doctors.

"The...

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