I saw this first on ABC:

ABC News’ Jon Garcia and Jessica Yellin Report: During this morning’s off-camera briefing with reporters, White House Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino broke down in tears at the podium when she announced that White House Press Secretary Tony Snow’s growth is cancerous and the cancer has metastasized to his liver. Doctors removed the cancerous growth from his lower abdomen on Monday afternoon. Snow, 51, is consulting with his doctors about the course of treatment and plans to get chemotherapy.

I think Kathryn will forgive the language… Damn. Damn, damn, damn.

UPDATE: In circumstances like this, it is common that within 24 hours you hear about vile comments on blogs and web sites, from dark and disturbed individuals happy about the terrible events that have befallen their political opponents. I’m pleased to note that over on Daily Kos, so far, the messages are just about entirely sympathy, best wishes, and support for Tony Snow. Maybe bloggers are human beings after all.