Terrible news…Fox reporting…Cancer has spread to Tony Snow’s liver…Hat tip – AP (Bush statement video added).

Mike Emmanuel: “Tony is a fighter.”

He is also a real mensch. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino: “He said he’s going to beat it again,” Perino said in an emotional morning briefing with White House reporters. “When I talked to him, he was in very good spirits.”

FoxNews.com coverage.

Get well wishes at Lucianne.com.

Did you know Tony is a multi-instrumentalist with a band? Here’s the website for Beats Workin’.

The Examiner covered an event earlier this month honoring Snow:

White House spokesman Tony Snow [was] honored for his successful fight against colon cancer by Great Comebacks, a program that shares stories between people who have lived with colorectal cancer and Crohn’s disease. Snow endured his surgery two years ago to the day of his award.

“It’s a pain in the you-know-what,” he said of the disease, as he paid tribute to the other inspirational people in the room.

What Snow didn’t know is that the other five members of his band, Beats Workin’, were on hand — hiding behind a black curtain with their equipment at the ready — to surprise Snow with an impromptu gig.

Snow is a multi-instrumentalist, but on this night, his bandmates snuck two of his flutes out of this house so he could lay down some solos, Ron Burgundy-style (Burgundy being, of course, Will Ferrell’s character in “Anchorman”).

Problem was, after the band opened with “Lean on Me,” Snow admitted that one of the instruments was broken, and he’d be forced to use his alto flute, which he’d “never played with the band.”

But he soldiered on (Ron would be proud) as the band launched into “Moondance,” with Snow’s airy woodwind floating over the top.

Flashback: Tony rocks the NR summit.

Flashback: Tony thanks Helen Thomas for the “Hezbollah view.”