'Super-Girl' Jadyn Schill, 13, won't let cancer define her

In a room on the eighth floor of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, bright pink sheets line the bed whereJadynSchilland her friend sit making bracelets and takingselfies. It's a familiar settingfor the girl who's become known in these halls as "Super-Girl."

In 2013, Sick Kids dubbedJadynthe most radiated child in Canada, having received a total of 123 doses of radiation as part of her treatment for cancer. That's the maximum anyone is allowed for life.

"People started calling me "Super-Girl" because I never really gave up," Jadyntold CBC News.

Now 13 years old, the girl fromMount Albert a small town an hour north of Torontohas beendiagnosed with a new recurrence of herbrain cancer Ependymoma, making it her seventh fight with the disease.

She was first diagnosed when she was five.

"She doesn't really remember not having cancer. This has been her entire life," said her mother, Christie Schill.

No other options

Schill said she first tookJadynto the hospital in 2008 after she lost movement in the left side of her face. Doctors originally diagnosed her with Bell's Palsy, but her momhad a feeling that something wasn't right. After taking her daughter for an MRI, a tumour was discovered.

Ever since then, Jadyn's had a mixture of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, but those treatments are no longer an option.

"Nobody wants to see their kid suffer," her mother said. "It's hard, so hard."

Even with her options dwindling,Jadynis keeping an active and busy schedule. As a Sick Kids patient ambassador, she's constantly taking part in community events and trying to raise awareness for the cause.

"It's important to raise awareness and funding so that one day no child will have to go through what I've gone through,"Jadynsaid

This past May was her eighth year participating in Meagan's Walk a community walk that finishes with thousands of participants holding hands to form a giant hug around Sick Kids hospital.

She has also participated in and has been a guest speaker at events such as the CAA Golf Tournament for Sick Kids, Bike for Tykes and her favourite, the Rally for Kids Cancer, where she said she met her "best friend" KimCoatesfrom Sons of Anarchy.

This Saturdayshe'll also be at the Boat Rally for Kids Cancer inMuskoka, a scavenger hunt by boat that sees celebrity guests visit various stations on shore. She'll be greeting the boatswith actor Billy Baldwin.

However, forJadynparticipating means more than simply raising awareness. She said she hopes that her experiences, both the struggles and the triumphs, will inspire other children to keep up the fight.

"When you think you're in the worst times, think what you have and what you don't have," she said. "There's always a positive side.

"My positive side is that there's still more options. It's not like the end of the world."

'Spectacular' attitude

Jadyn's pediatricneuro-oncologistDr. EricBouffetsaid that her attitude is "spectacular" and "unusual" for a patient that'sbeen through what she has.

He said that even after her last experimental trial failed, she remained just as hopeful as always.

"We met a few weeks ago to discuss the result of the last treatment and rather than just having a sort of depressive mood, when we told her we had a new treatment she was jumping," he said.

On Tuesday afternoon,Jadyngot the go-ahead to begin that new treatment.Bouffetsaid she's the first child in the world to try a new experimental drug that connects itself to cancer cells, "strangles" and "hopefully kills them."

Jadyn Schill is only 13, and she's fighting her seventh battle with cancer

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According to SickKids, Jadyn is the most radiated child in Canada. A few months ago she was diagnosed with brain cancer, her seventh fight with the disease. She's currently trying experimental treatments."She's a believer and she makes everybody believe that it's going to work," he said.

With no doubts that she can beat cancer again this time,Jadynis already making plans for the future.

"Once I'm like cancer-free, I just want to go to school like a normal kid and try to get back into sports."