JFK’s granddaughter dies after leukemia diagnosis
Bhargav Acharya
Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy, died Tuesday after announcing in November that she had been diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. He was 35 years old.
The environmental journalist’s death was announced by his family in a social media post from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the family wrote.
One New Yorker In his article published in November, Schlossberg said he had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation (a cancer of the blood and bone marrow) and had less than a year to live.
She was diagnosed shortly after giving birth to her second child with husband George Moran in May last year. Doctors noticed that her white blood cell count was abnormally high after birth.
Further testing revealed a diagnosis of leukemia with a rare mutation known as Inversion 3, a genetic abnormality found in less than 2 percent of cases and more commonly seen in older patients or first responders at Ground Zero on 9/11.
“I couldn’t believe what they were talking about me, I couldn’t believe it,” Schlossberg wrote in his essay.
“I swam a mile in the pool the day before when I was nine months pregnant. I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. In fact, I was one of the healthiest people I know.”
Schlossberg is the second daughter of Edwin Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedy, who served as the US ambassador to Australia from 2022 to 2024.
in it New Yorker In the article, Schlossberg criticized the appointment of his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as U.S. secretary of health and human services in the Trump administration for his vaccine skepticism and cutting funding for cancer research.
“I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby was approved for this position, against logic and common sense, even though he had never worked in medicine, public health, or government,” he wrote.
Schlossberg wrote that their decisions threatened his survival and that of “millions of cancer survivors, young children, and the elderly.”
“I watched Bobby cut nearly half a billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; he cut billions of dollars in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world’s largest sponsor of medical research,” he wrote.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. he had previously run for president of the United States as an independent, which Schlossberg called “an embarrassment to me and the rest of my immediate family.”
Tragedy has followed the Kennedy family since John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. His brother Bobby was shot while campaigning in 1968. JFK’s son, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in a plane crash in 1999 that also killed his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy.
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