Tatiana Schlossberg’s sister donated stem cells for cancer treatment

by Tatiana Schlossberg In his lifelong battle with cancer, his siblings step in to help.

“My sister became a match and can donate her stem cells,” Tatiana, 35, wrote in a New Yorker Essay published on Saturday, November 22, addressed to my elderly sister Rose schlossberg. “My brother [Jack Schlossberg] It was a Half-game, but you asked every doctor if maybe a Half-game was better, if it happened. “

The Schlossberg siblings are three children of Caroline Kennedy – Daughter of Israel John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Ontaissis – again Edwin Schlossberg.

Tatiana was diagnosed with acute alleloid leukemia in 2024 shortly after giving birth to her second child. (Tatiana and husband George Moran welcomed a son in 2022 and a daughter in 2024.)

After consulting her doctor, Tatiana learned that she had a rare mutation in her blood cells and was later given a year to live.

“I could not be treated by the usual course of treatment. I would need a few months, at least, of chemotherapy, which would aim to reduce the number of my cells that have exploded,” he said “in my blood” Essay of This page New Yorker. “After that, I would need a marcow bone transplant, which would cure me. After the transplant, I would need more treatment, always, to try to keep the cancer from coming back.”

Tatiana also looked at several clinical trials, in addition to stem cell therapy using rose donation.

“My sister wanted her arms straight for hours as the doctors took blood from one, took away her cells, and pumped the blood back into the other. “The cells smelled like canned tomato soup. When it started pumping

He added, “I was waiting – because my blood counts to recover, because my sister’s cells have healed and put a scarf that I will get you, one time at the same time, each time I bind.”

While Tatiana was admitted to the hospital, with Moran by her side, some of her relatives helped their children.

“My parents and brother and sister, too, have been raising my children and sitting in my various hospital rooms almost every day for the past year and a half,” Tatiana wrote. “They held my hand for a long time while I suffered, I try not to show their pain and sorrow to protect me from it. This was a good gift, even though I feel great pain every day.”

He continued, “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.”

After Tatiana’s story was published, her family was in her corner. Jack, 32, even shared links to the article on his Instagram, while his cousin Maria Shriver and offered his support.

“Tatiana is a good writer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend. This part is what they have been going through for the past year and a half, written on her instagram, directly responding New Yorker The story. “It is an Ode to all doctors and nurses who work on the lines of humanity. There are many things, but it is better to study the life you live today, now, this moment.”