This cancer-fighting girl is the ‘real-life' Wonder Woman — and Lynda Carter agrees

[sheshe2]

In a photo that's gone viral, cancer survivor Sophia Sandoval, 3, poses in a Wonder Woman costume Jan. 30, after receiving her final chemo treatment. Lynda Carter, who played the title role on TV's "Wonder Woman," called Sophia a "real-life Wonder Woman" on the actress' Facebook page.

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After the California-based Jessie Rees Foundation — a pediatric cancer charity — shared Sophia's photo on its own Facebook page Monday, it collected more than 728,000 Likes. "That means a lot," Sandoval said. "With all the positive comments, I think it's helping us to be positive, and know that she's going to be all right."

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Sophia was fortunate to be diagnosed with medulloblastoma early, thanks to her mother's intuition. In late May, Sandoval noticed Sophia was frequently losing her balance, and took her to the hospital, where doctors discovered a brain tumor beneath her cerebellum.

"The weird thing is, she never complained about pain [before the diagnosis]," Sandoval said. "[People with cancer] will get headaches, or they'll get exhausted for a long time, but she was living her life."

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[MoonRiver]

1. Wonderful story! Thank you for sharing!

Sophia is a hero!

[ND-Dem]

2. +100

[shenmue]

3. Awesome!

[dem in texas]

4. God Bless Sweet Sophia

I underwent a long round of chemo and will be done with my radiation treatments next week. The chemo was horrible and I am still having side effects two months later. While sitting in the chemo chairs, you talk with the other patients and some had stories that broke my heart, like a young mother with 3 children, 6 years, 4 years and 9 months who was being treated for colon cancer. Or the lady had inoperable lung cancer, who owned a flower shop in a town about 50 miles from here. She would open her shop, check the day's order and get her staff working, then drive 50 miles to cancer center, get chemo and radiation, then go back and close up the shop for the day. The treatment she was getting had shrunk her tumor almost away. She was cheerful and joking all the time I talked with her. These two are just examples of some of the people I met while getting my treatments.

All these people are so brave and it is inspiring to see a little girl fighting her cancer with all her heart.

One more comment.

The Koman Foundation is so well organized and has such a strong marketing campaign to fight breast cancer (that is what I have), but after meeting these people with all types of cancer, why can't we have pink ribbons and runs for the cure for ALL cancer patients?

[sheshe2]

5. A huge hug to you dem in texas

To Sophia and you and the friends you have made, you are all extrodinary.

[deurbano]

9. Congrats on nearing the end of radiation treatment,

and BEST wishes for a full and speedy recovery (including from the chemo side effects)!

[Jim Lane]

11. I can't imagine having chemo and radiation at the same time.

I had chemo the first time I had cancer, and it wiped me out for months, but that was more than a decade ago. I'm now getting radiation; it leaves me fatigued but not as badly as the chemo. Having them so close together, as you have, must be much worse.

It's good to hear that your radiation is almost done. I have two more weeks to go on mine. I'm remembering the motto I adopted my first time around: "This, too, shall pass."

Strength to you, dem in texas. I look forward to discussing the 2016 primaries with you!

[Downwinder]

6. Amazing Amazon!

[sheshe2]

7. Yes she is Downwinder.

Thank you for Recing her.

[Downwinder]

8. Should be a proclamation from Queen Hippolyta.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. k&r what a cutie

[Luminous Animal]

12. And if she dies, as she lays dying… she will die thinking she was a failure.

My sister, when she was a pediatric oncology nurse, hated these kind of parents who told their kids they can beat cancer like a super hero because a fair amount of those kids (that she would readmit periodically through the years)… would die.

Too many times my sister heard a dying child say that they didn't fight hard enough and were letting their family down by not being a "super hero" and dying.

It is an extra-ordinary burden on a child