The ‘Kennedy Curse’ continues. Tatiana Schlossberg, 35 year old granddaughter of US President John F. Kennedy murdered in Dallas in 1963, it was revealed in ‘The New Yorker’ that he suffered acute myeloid leukemia with rare mutations – inversion of chromosome 3 – which doctors said would leave him less than 1 year to live despite treatment received, with intensive chemotherapy and two bone marrow transplants.
What is acute myeloid leukemia
With more than 2 thousand registered cases in Italy in 2024 according to the latest data from Airtum (Italian Association of Cancer Registries) reported on the Airc Foundation website for cancer research, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) represents 25% of all leukemias in adults, with a survival of around 30% 5 years after diagnosis. AND’ second most common leukemiawe read an in-depth study by Hematology of Pavia, which determined that leukemia characterized by changes in chromosomes 3, 5 or 7 is considered high risk.
Tatiana, the second of three children of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, a journalist, said that 10 minutes after giving birth to her second daughter in May 2024, doctors saw an abnormal number of white blood cells in her blood test. Shortly thereafter he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia reversal 3. “I had a son I loved more than anything and a newborn to care for,” he wrote. Attended at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, after treatment, transplantation and several clinical studies, her doctor told her that he could keep her alive “for maybe 1 year”, the young woman admitted. “All my life – she continued – I have tried to be a good student, a good sister and a good daughter, to protect my mother and never make her angry or upset.” But “I had added another tragedy to his life, to our family, and there was nothing I could have done to prevent it.”
‘The Kennedy Curse’
After the death of her father Jfk, mother Caroline also lost her uncle Robert Kennedy who was assassinated in 1968 during the Democratic Party nomination campaign. Her mother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in 1994 at the age of 64 from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. And his brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., lost his life in a plane crash off the coast of Massachusetts in 1999.
In the articleo Tatiana expressed her family’s disappointment over the nomination and confirmation of her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as secretary of Health and Human Services in Donald Trump’s administration. A sign of a split in the democratic dynasty, followed by controversial choices seen by many as anti-scientific and anti-vaccine. The young woman specifically mentioned about $500 million in cuts to mRNA vaccine research, as well as funding to the National Institutes of Health. Her final months ahead would be dedicated to her family, her children, and her doctor husband, George Moran. “At this moment – he concluded – I strive above all to live and be with them”.
