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John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter revealed Saturday that she has terminal cancer, writing in an essay in “The New Yorker” that one of her doctors said she could live about a year longer and criticizing policies pushed by her cousin, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Kennedy’s daughter Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, said she was diagnosed at age 34 in May 2024. After the birth of her second child, her doctor noticed that her white blood cell count was high. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation, which is mainly seen in older people.

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Schlossberg, an environmental journalist, wrote that she underwent rounds of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants, the first using cells from her sister and the next from an unrelated donor, and participated in clinical trials. During the last trial, he wrote, his doctor told him that “maybe he could keep me alive for a year.”

Schlossberg also said policies supported by RFK could harm cancer patients like her. Caroline Kennedy urged senators to reject her confirmation.

“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 half a billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, a technology that could be used against certain cancers,” the essay reads.

Schlossberg wrote of her fears that her daughter and son will not remember her. She feels cheated and sad for not being able to continue living “the wonderful life” she had with her husband, George Moran. While her parents and siblings try to hide their pain from her, she said she feels it every day.

“All my life, I have tried to be good, a good student, a good sister and a good daughter, and protect my mother and never make her angry or upset,” she said. “Now I have added a new tragedy to his life, to our family’s life, and there is nothing I can do to stop it.”