"7 Subtle Signs of Leukemia: A Wake-Up Call Following JFK's Granddaughter's Tragic Death at 35"

TATIANA Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former US president John F. Kennedy, has died of cancer aged just 35.

came just six weeks after she revealed her diagnosis – which came as a shock to her as she’d experienced no symptoms.

JFK’S granddaughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, has died of cancer at 35Credit: JFK Library Foundation/Lauren Justice Tatiana Schlossberg passed away on December 30 from acute myeloid leukaemiaCredit: AFP

An environmental journalist and daughter to Caroline Kennedy, 67, and Edwin Schlossberg, 80, Tatiana learned she had cancer in May 2024, shortly after giving birth to her second child.

In a blistering essay published in the New Yorker last month, the 35-year-old wrote: “I did not – could not – believe that they were talking about me.

“I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant.

“I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew.”

In the essay, titled A Battle With My Blood , Tatiana said she had participated in clinical trials to help treat her cancer but she had less than a year to live.

“During the latest clinical trial, my doctor told me that he could keep me alive for a year, maybe,” she wrote.

“My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me.”

Tatiana is survived by her husband, physician George Moran, and her children, Edwin, one, and Josephine, one, as well as by her parents and siblings Rose and Jack Schlossberg.

Her family announced her passing through a statement: “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts.”

Tatiana was diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, called acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), with a rare mutation called Inversion 3.

AML is a type of blood cancer.

The disease progresses very quickly – hence it being called ‘acute’ – and it affects the myeloid cells, a type of blood cell.

AML is the most common form of acute leukaemia in adults, according to Leukaemia UK .

The cancer is most common in people over 60, but children can also be diagnosed with AML.

Blood cancer often means you don’t have the right balance of blood cells in your body, according to Blood Cancer UK .

You might have too many of a particular type of blood cell, not enough of a particular type of blood cell, or cells that aren’t working properly.

In Tatiana’s case, doctors noticed that she had an abnormally high white blood cell count and ordered further testing.

There are several different types of blood cancer – from leukaemia, to lymphoma and .

Tatiana was a journalist and mum-of-twoCredit: Getty She’s pictured here with her mum Caroline Kennedy, brother Jack Schlossberg and dad Edwin SchlossbergCredit: Getty Tatiana announced her terminal diagnosis in an essay in NovemberCredit: AP

Signs and symptoms of acute myeloid leukaemia are similar to other blood cancer but are likely to develop more quickly.

They can include:

1. Fatigue
2. Pale skin
3. Frequent infections
4. Shortness of breath
5. Unexplained weight loss
6. Bruising and bleeding easily
7. Bone pain

Almost 3,100 people are diagnosed with AML in the UK every year.

That’s more than eight people every day, according to Leukaemia UK.

In the UK, 42 per cent of all cases are diagnosed in people aged 75 or over.

Survival rates from AML are one of the lowest for all cancers, with only 22 per cent of patients surviving after five years.

The mutation Tatiana had – an inversion of chromosome 3 – significantly worsens AML survival rates.

Tatiana was related to 71, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services.

She criticised him in her essay, calling him “embarrassment to me and the rest of my immediate family”.

The journalist described hearing of RFK Jr’s cuts to the health service as she underwent treatment.

“I watched from my hospital bed as Bobby, in the face of logic and common sense, was confirmed for the position, despite never having worked in medicine, public health, or the government,” she said.

“Suddenly, the health-care system on which I relied felt strained, shaky.

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

Tatiana ended her essay by saying she wants to “live and be with” her children.

“But being in the present is harder than it sounds, so I let the memories come and go,” she wrote.

“Sometimes I trick myself into thinking I’ll remember this forever, I’ll remember this when I’m dead.

“Obviously, I won’t. But since I don’t know what death is like and there’s no one to tell me what comes after it, I’ll keep pretending.

“I will keep trying to remember.”