Name: JFKs granddaughter Tatiana reveals terminal cancer diagnosis
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Description: Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of former ambassador Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, announced over the weekend that she has less than a year to live amid a rare cancer diagnosis. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook joins with more.

Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of former ambassador Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, announced over the weekend that she has less than a year to live amid a rare cancer diagnosis. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook joins with more.

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Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has publicly revealed her diagnosis of a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. Diagnosed shortly after giving birth to her second child, Schlossberg, 35, shared that she has about a year to live and has undergone extensive treatments including chemotherapy, bone marrow transplants, and immunotherapy.

Medical experts note that her leukemia subtype is especially difficult to treat, and Schlossberg has expressed concern about the impact of federal research funding cuts on future medical advances. She also voiced her fears that her young children may not remember her due to her prognosis, highlighting the personal and broader implications of her illness.

JFK's granddaughter Tatiana reveals terminal cancer diagnosis

Now, just shocking news and very sad news from a member of the Kennedy family who says she was blindsided by a terminal illness. We're talking about Tatiana Schlossberg. She's daughter of former Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy. She revealed over the weekend that she has only a year or so to live. She wrote about her illness and her treatment in an essay for the New Yorker magazine, Dr. John LePoucq has more. Hours after giving birth to her second child, Tatiana Schlossberg says the joy of new motherhood was replaced by a shattering diagnosis, a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. She writes, I did not, could not believe that they were talking about me. I wasn't sick. I didn't feel sick. In the 18 months since, the 35-year-old journalist says she endured grueling treatment, chemotherapy, bone marrow transplants, and a cutting-edge immunotherapy trial. Looking at the article, did she have everything thrown at it that you can imagine could be thrown at it? She has gotten the absolute state of the art. The problem is that the state of the art isn't good enough. Dr. Gail Robos is director of Weill Cornell Medicine's leukemia program. Though not involved in her care, she says Schlossberg's variant of blood cancer is especially difficult to treat. This particular one is both rare and actually evil is the only term for it. It is a very, very, very challenging subtype that seems to get away from us, no matter what therapy, whatever we have thrown at this so far, the disease is stronger. Schlossberg says the fight has been made even harder by federal budget cuts and health policy decisions, including those led by her cousin, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Biomedical research should never stop or be paused. The advances that have happened in leukemia and in transplant have been stunning over the last decades, but as this story so, so tragically highlights, we need more. Dr. Robos told us this particular variant of leukemia is especially brutal, but that advances in treatment of other forms have been remarkable with many patients having successful outcomes. And you know, Schlossberg makes the point that research, you know, she's disturbed about the cuts in research. Research is a long game. And you'll remember that about five years ago, President Trump's life was probably saved by something called monoclonal antibodies when he had COVID. The research that led to that technology began almost 50 years earlier. So when you're cutting research now, who knows what research and discoveries you're preventing years from now. Yeah. You'll never know. But this was such a heartbreaking story to hear over the weekend. What Dr. Robos said that this, this particular cancer rare and evil. But one of the things that Tatiana says, what the thing that she is worried about the most is that her children are so young, they're both under the age of three, that they won't even know her. That broke my heart when I read that. And that she was healthy, John. That's the thing that threw me. She had the baby. She said that she had been swimming the day before. No signs whatsoever. This is how this particular cancer works? Well, this is a very rare, and as Dr. Robos says, you know, it's an evil form of leukemia. There are a lot of forms of leukemia that are quite treatable. I mean, I have a friend, a dear friend, Delia Efron, who was treated when she was about 70 and she had a stem cell transplant and it worked well. So this is just a terrible bit of bad luck for a family that's had way too much bad luck. But to think that you're healthy and then all of a sudden you're given a terminal diagnosis when you're 34. And very often you will have some kind of nonspecific symptoms. I don't want people out there thinking, oh, you know, I'm going to get this. It's a relative, it's a very rare kind of leukemia. But, you know, we wish her all the best, obviously. Life is fragile. Dr. Lapute, thank you very much.

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