Tatiana Schlossberg reveals terminal cancer diagnosis, another Kennedy family tragedy
Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of slain President John F. Kennedy, is battling a rare form of leukemia and may have less than a year to live.
In an article published on Saturday In the New Yorker, The 35-year-old environmental journalist wrote that her disease was discovered after giving birth to her daughter in May 2024. He was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation known as Inversion 3 and underwent several treatments, including chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant.
Schlossberg is the daughter of former U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, the former president’s daughter. They live in New York.
In his article, Schlossberg acknowledged that his terminal illness contributed to a series of tragedies that befell the famous political family. HE My grandfather was assassinated in Dallas About five years later, his brother Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was fatally shot in Los Angeles after giving a victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel after winning the California presidential primary. His uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in 1999 when his small plane crashed.
“All my life I have tried to be good, to be a good student, a good sister and a good daughter, to protect my mother and never upset or anger her,” Schlossberg wrote.
“I have now added a new tragedy to his life and our family’s life, and there is nothing I can do to stop it.”
His diagnosis was striking, he wrote. She had just turned 34, didn’t feel sick, and was physically active, including swimming a mile the day before giving birth to her second child at Columbia-Presbyterian hospital in New York.
After birth, her doctor was alarmed by her high white blood cell count.
At first, medical professionals thought the test result might be related to her pregnancy. But doctors soon concluded that he had myeloid leukemia, a condition most often seen in older patients. He remained in hospital for weeks.
“Every doctor I saw asked me if I was spending too much time at Ground Zero, given how common blood cancers are among first responders,” Schlossberg wrote. “I was in New York on 9/11 when I was in sixth grade, but I didn’t visit the site until years later.”
He endured various treatments. Her older sister, Rose, was one of the bone marrow donors.
In the article, Schlossberg talked about the Kennedy family’s dilemma over the controversial positions of his mother’s cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. While in the hospital in mid-2024, Kennedy suspended his long-term presidential campaign to throw his weight behind then-Republican candidate President Trump, Schlossberg wrote.
Trump appointed Kennedy to his cabinet as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In one of his first moves, Trump demanded that government funding be cut off from Columbia University, which employs him. husband George Moran.
“Doctors and scientists at Columbia, including George, did not know whether they could continue their research or even hold jobs,” he wrote. “Suddenly the healthcare system I relied on felt strained and shaky.”
His brother, Jack Schlossberg, who recently announced his candidacy for Congress in a New York district on Saturday. shared on Instagram Link to New Yorker article “A War With My Blood.”
He added: “Life is short, let it fall apart.”
