6:30 a.m.: National Security briefing
10 a.m.: Press briefing
Noon: Chemotherapy, hospital
3:30 p.m.: Pick up kids from school

If all goes as planned, such will be the typical every-other-Friday schedule for the President's press secretary Tony Snow. Back on the job April 30 after exploratory surgery in March found that his colon cancer, first treated two years ago, had spread to his liver, Snow is facing three months of chemo. Even in his darkest hours, he insists, he never considered sitting out his daily battles with members of the White House press corps. "What other people regard as stress on the job," Snow, 51, says, "is just a normal part of getting the adrenaline going for me."

The cocktail of drugs he's taking to keep his cancer in check includes one he took when first treated for stage III colon cancer. "I'd be exhausted for two or three days," he recalls. His treatment will include drugs not widely used in '05. "The pace of innovation is breathtaking," he says. "Anyone who can survive a few years has automatic hope."

As for his own prognosis, Snow, who saw his mother succumb to colon cancer when he was 17, just shrugs. "Nobody set a date or timetable." (Experts say there are no reliable statistics, but some 60 percent of patients with stage III colon cancer survive five years after initial treatment.)

His most potent medicine? Love. While at home with Jill and their three kids post-op, he got a photo of his staff wearing yellow LIVESTRONG-style "Tony Snow" wristbands. "Just to see that, I started sobbing," he says with a smile. "Love is a valuable and precious thing and, I firmly believe, has incredible power."