The Kennedy curse has claimed another soul, but this time the enemy was not a bullet or a plane crash—it was a silent, aggressive killer lurking within. Tatiana Schlossberg, the 35-year-old environmental journalist and granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, died on December 30, 2025, after a grueling 18-month battle with a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Diagnosed just hours after giving birth to her second child, Schlossberg’s death has become the tragic face of a terrifying new trend: a global spike in early-onset cancer among young, seemingly healthy adults.
Schlossberg didn’t go quietly. In a searing final essay for The New Yorker, she revealed the “Inversion 3” mutation that turned her blood against her and issued a blistering critique of her cousin, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for cutting the very medical research funding that might have saved her. Her death comes as researchers at BMJ Oncology warn of a “staggering” 79% increase in new cancer cases among those under 50. As the world mourns a brilliant writer and mother of two, the medical community is left with a haunting question: Why is the world’s youth suddenly being hunted by a disease that used to belong to the elderly?
