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Bengals' Devon Still offers positive update on daughter after surgery

Published Sep. 25, 2014 6:06 p.m. ET

Marcus Hartman

The best feel-good story in the NFL got better Thursday when Devon Still shared with his followers on Twitter and Instagram an update on his daughter's fight with cancer.

Still, a third-year defensive tackle for the Bengals who made national news earlier this month when the club kept him on the practice squad to provide insurance for him and his family as his daughter, Leah, battles cancer, posted a picture of her on his Instagram account with the latest news:

"After a 5hr 50min surgery the surgeon was able to remove ALL of her tumor and all of her lymph nodes and her right adrenal gland where it all started from...best news I've received in a long time."

Earlier Thursday, Still posted a pep talk he gave Leah before her surgery.