Yet on the Friday before the Eagles faced Green Bay in the playoffs three weeks ago, Akers was at Children's with his 6-year-old daughter, Halley, snaking through a course of tests that led them, unexpectedly, to the oncology floor. The doctors told Akers that a cyst in his daughter's left ovary had to be removed. They did not say the word, but Akers knew the possibility: cancer.
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It has been a little more than two weeks since Halley had her ovary removed. The tumor was malignant, but early tests have shown that the doctors got all of it. Halley bounced back from surgery and left the hospital the next day, happy and unaffected by the stitches under her skin.

She will have to have blood tests every month for the next year, then more tests sporadically as she gets older. She also will have periodic ultrasounds the rest of her youth, and even if she is fortunate enough to remain cancer-free, eventually she likely will need to have her right ovary removed - her parents hope only after Halley has had her own children.