Tatiana Schlossberg, the youngest granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, recently revealed she was diagnosed with terminal acute myeloid leukemia (AML) due to a rare genetic anomaly.

In a personal essay published Saturday in The New Yorker , the 35-year-old mother of two wrote that she has an inversion of chromosome 3, which significantly worsens AML survival rates.

AML only accounts for 1% of all cancers , typically affecting people over the age of 65. Some forms are treatable, but Schlossberg’s subtype has a poor prognosis.

She has been in clinical trials of CAR-T-cell therapy for certain blood cancers, but has been told by doctors that she has less than a year to live .

AML is an aggressive blood and bone marrow cancer caused by genetic mutations in blood stem cells.

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