John F. Kennedy’s 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.
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Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, wrote that she was diagnosed in May 2024 at 34.
After the birth of her second child, her doctor noticed her white blood cell count was high. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukaemia with a rare mutation, mostly seen in older people, she wrote.
Her essay was published on the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather’s assassination.
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 took part in clinical trials.
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During the latest trial, she wrote that her doctor told her “he could keep me alive for a year, maybe”.
