White House spokesman’s cancer returns.

“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.”

Snow spoke with President Bush early today to deliver the news.

“It is hard news for us,” Perino said. “President and Mrs. Bush and the whole White House team has him in our prayers.”

Blood tests and a PET imaging scan had come back negative for cancer. Snow had announced Friday that he had opted to have the growth removed “out an aggressive sense of caution.”

It is unclear if or when Snow will return to his duties. Perino, the White House’s deputy press secretary, is leading the news briefings in his absence. She said she talked with him Tuesday morning and “he was helping me with talking points,” said Perino, who broke into tears when she announced Snow’s condition.

Perino said Snow also gave her some instructions to pass on to reporters: “Tell them not to bug me.” He also thanked reporters and others for the outpouring of good wishes he has received.

Snow and his wife, Jill, have three young children.

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