Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, has revealed that she is diagnosed with a terminal cancer. Schlossberg opened up about her diagnosis in an essay published in The New Yorker.

What did Tatiana Schlossberg say about being diagnosed with terminal cancer?

In her essay for The New Yorker, Schlossberg said she was diagnosed with cancer in May 2024 after giving birth to her second child. That’s when doctors noticed Schlossberg’s high white blood cell count and diagnosed her with acute myeloid leukemia, a rare mutation, The Grio reported.

Schlossberg said she underwent multiple rounds of chemotherapy and completed two stem cell transplants. While the first cells for Schlossberg’s treatment came from her sister, the other was from an unrelated donor. As she was going through treatment, Schlossberg said the doctor told her that she could probably live for a year longer.

What did Tatiana Schlossberg say in her criticism of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?

In her essay, Schlossberg didn’t shy away from criticizing U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is her cousin.

“As 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,” she wrote in the essay, which was published on the 62nd anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

Schlossberg’s criticism comes after her mother, Caroline Kennedy, urged senators to deny RFK Jr.’s confirmation.

As she continued to write about the severity of her diagnosis, Schlossberg opened up about the fear of not seeing her children grow and about missing out on the chance to reach the goals she set for her life.

“For 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,” she wrote. “Now I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to stop it.”

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