John F Kennedy\u2019s granddaughter disclosed on Saturday that she has terminal cancer, writing in an essay in The New Yorker that one of her doctors said she might live for about another year.<\/p>\n
Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy\u2019s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, wrote that she was diagnosed in May 2024 at 34 when, after the birth of her second child, her doctor noticed her white blood cell count was high.<\/p>\n
It turned out to be acute myeloid leukaemia with a rare mutation, mostly seen in older people, she wrote.<\/p>\n
Ms Schlossberg, an environmental journalist, wrote she has undergone rounds of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants, the first using cells from her sister and the next from an unrelated donor, and participated in clinical trials.<\/p>\n
During the latest trial, she wrote that her doctor told her \u201che could keep me alive for a year, maybe\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ms Schlossberg noted that her cousin, Robert F Kennedy Jr, was on the national stage, first running for president and later becoming President Donald Trump\u2019s health and human services secretary, as she has been treated and that his policies could hurt cancer patients like her.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers,\u201d she wrote in the essay, published on the 62nd anniversary of JFK\u2019s assassination.<\/p>\n
Ms Schlossberg wrote about her fears that her daughter and son will not remember her and feeling cheated and sad that she will not get to keep living \u201cthe wonderful life\u201d she had with her husband, George Moran.<\/p>\n
While her parents and siblings try to hide their pain from her, she said she feels it every day.<\/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.<\/p>\n
\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 she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John F Kennedy\u2019s granddaughter disclosed on Saturday that she has terminal cancer, writing in an essay in The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,6514,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-154636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-place-international","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}