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Tatiana Schlossberg Shares Terminal Leukemia Diagnosis, Urges Health Reform

11/22/2025

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Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy, reveals terminal diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia in an essay published in The New Yorker on November 22, 2025.
Doctors discovered the cancer shortly after she gave birth to her second child in May 2024.
She underwent chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant.
Her prognosis is less than a year, and she said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions as Health Secretary could affect her care.

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Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy, reveals terminal diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia in an essay published in The New Yorker on November 22, 2025.
Doctors discovered the cancer shortly after she gave birth to her second child in May 2024.
She underwent chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant.
Her prognosis is less than a year, and she said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions as Health Secretary could affect her care.