Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, revealed on Saturday she has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, with a doctor telling her she has less than a year to live.<\/p>\n
In an essay in The New Yorker<\/a>, the 35-year-old wrote that she was diagnosed last year with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation known as Inversion 3, a genetic anomaly found in less than 2 per cent of AML<\/a> cases.<\/p>\n Doctors discovered the cancer shortly after Schlossberg gave birth to her daughter in May 2024.<\/p>\n \u201cI did not \u2014 could not \u2014 believe that they were talking about me,\u201d Schlossberg wrote. \u201cI had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn\u2019t sick. I didn\u2019t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew.\u201d<\/p>\n In the essay, Schlossberg documents the grueling treatment process, which included several rounds of chemotherapy, two bone-marrow transplants and participation in two clinical trials. Schlossberg said she was also diagnosed with a form of Epstein-Barr virus in September, which \u201cblasted my kidneys,\u201d and had to learn to walk again.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n Schlossberg, an environmental journalist, is the second daughter of former US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and designer Edwin Schlossberg. Tatiana Schlossberg and her husband, George Moran, have a 3-year-old son and 1-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n Schlossberg said her siblings \u2014 Rose, a filmmaker, and Jack, who earlier this month announced a run for Congress \u2014 have been helping raise her children and \u201chave held my hand unflinchingly while I have suffered, trying not to show their pain and sadness in order to protect me from it.\u201d<\/p>\n Schlossberg described going through treatment as her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, after \u201crunning for President as an Independent, but mostly as an embarrassment to me and the rest of my immediate family.\u201d<\/p>\n She said the doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian\/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where she was treated, didn\u2019t know whether they would be affected after the Trump administration stripped Columbia University of federal funding. \u201cSuddenly, the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky,\u201d Schlossberg wrote. The university later agreed a deal with the Trump administration to restore the funding.<\/p>\n Schlossberg said she regrets adding to her family\u2019s history of tragedy, which includes John F. Kennedy\u2019s assassination in 1963 and the assassination of her great-uncle, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, in 1968.<\/p>\n \u201cFor my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,\u201d she writes. \u201cNow I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family\u2019s life, and there\u2019s nothing I can do to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, revealed on Saturday she has been diagnosed with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[712,49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-302344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}