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Offensive tackle Nate Solder's job on the field is to protect New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady during the Super Bowl. It is a serious assignment, and Solder takes it seriously, but he also views the entire situation in context. Solder is a cancer survivor, but in 2015 he faced an even more difficult diagnosis: his infant son's kidney tumor. "May I ask you how your son is (now)?" WCVB NewsCenter 5's Ed Harding asked Solder during a media event in Houston. "He's doing really well," Solder answered. Hudson wasn't yet 6 months old when he was diagnosed with a Wilms tumor. He was treated with chemotherapy. "How do you go through the hell that you went through?" Harding asked. "It wasn't me," Solder said. "We were carried through by our family, our community, our faith in Christ. If he had to write a depth chart for the strength of his family, Solder said he would not rank high. "I'm on the bottom of the list," he said. "My wife is far stronger than me and Hudson is stronger than (both of) us." Now, on the cusp of the biggest game in football, Solder reflected on the way his challenges at home put the Super Bowl run into perspective. "This whole year has been a perspective shift for us, and if you'd see some of the families, what they're struggling with at the Jimmy Fund and Boston Children's Hospital, and some of the tough circumstances that people are put in, you would realize that this is a great game," he said. "We're so fortunate to get to play it, but it is not the end of the world."