Tony Snow's Cancer Recurs

By Caroline Miller,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 28, 2007 7:53 AM CDT
Tony Snow's Cancer Recurs
Tony Snow smiles as he is introduced by President Bush as his new Press Secretary in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington in this Wednesday, April 26, 2006 file photo. Presidential spokesman Tony Snow   (Associated Press)

White House press secretary Tony Snow has cancer again, and this time it's spread to his liver. Doctors discovered the recurrence when they removed a  growth from his lower abdomen yesterday. Snow, who's 51, underwent surgery and chemotherapy for colon cancer two years ago.

It's unclear whether the former Fox television host, who's been a vigorous and popular defender of the embattled president, will be able to return to his post. (More cancer stories.)

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