Jfk's Granddaughter Tatiana Schlossberg Reveals Terminal Cancer Diagnosis

Tatiana Schlossberg, nan girl of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, has revealed her terminal crab test successful an essay published by The New Yorker connected Saturday.

The 35-year-old has acute myeloid leukemia, pinch a uncommon mutation called Inversion 3.

Schlossberg said she was diagnosed connected May 25, 2024, nan aforesaid time she gave commencement to her 2nd child. Hours aft delivery, her expert noticed her abnormally precocious white-blood-cell count and moved her to different level for further testing.

She initially dismissed nan anticipation of crab and was stunned erstwhile nan test was confirmed, saying she had considered herself "one of nan healthiest people" she knew.

“This could not perchance beryllium my life,” she wrote.

Schlossberg spent 5 weeks astatine Columbia Presbyterian aft her daughter’s commencement earlier her blast-cell count dropped capable for her to statesman chemotherapy astatine home. Her attraction later moved to Memorial Sloan Kettering, wherever she underwent a bone-marrow transplant and spent much than 50 days earlier returning location for much treatment.

In January, Schlossberg joined a objective proceedings for CAR T-cell therapy. She wrote that overmuch of nan curen unfold from her infirmary furniture arsenic her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was nominated and confirmed arsenic caput of wellness and quality services, a domiciled she believes he was unqualified for.

Schlossberg thanked her hubby and her family for their support for countless days spent astatine her bedside.

“My parents and my relative and sister, too, person been raising my children and sitting successful my various infirmary rooms almost each time for nan past twelvemonth and a half,” she added.

Her brother, Jack Schlossberg, announced earlier this month that he is moving for Congress. The 32-year-old is moving for nan New York City spot which has agelong been held by Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, who successful September announced he will not activity re-election.

Despite each of Schlossberg’s treatments, she said, nan crab continued to return.

“During nan latest objective trial, my expert told maine that he could support maine live for a year, maybe,” she wrote. “My first thought was that my kids, whose faces unrecorded permanently connected nan wrong of my eyelids, wouldn’t retrieve me.”

Schlossberg is now trying her champion to beryllium successful nan coming pinch her children.

By occupation a writer, for respective years Schlossberg was a newsman for nan Science conception of The New York Times wherever she covered ambiance alteration and nan environment.

Schlossberg’s effort comes connected nan 62nd day of her grandfather’s assassination, adding her test to a agelong history of calamity wrong nan Kennedy family.

JFK's son, John F. Kennedy Jr. and his woman Carolyn Bessette Kennedy died successful a level clang successful 1999.

Ethel Kennedy, nan widow of Robert F. Kennedy who was assassinated successful 1968, died successful Oct. 2024 from complications from a stroke. She was 96.