Doug Harris, the Washington Nationals’ assistant general manager and vice president of player personnel, beat cancer once. Unfortunately, he is battling the disease once again.
The Harris family launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for a cell therapy to treat his resurgent leukemia.
The GoFundMe has a goal of $400,000, and has raised a little more than $44,000 since its creation on July 18.
The family wrote on GoFundMe that when Doug Harris had a bone marrow transplant, the leukemia was not fully eliminated.
“Now Doug has the opportunity to benefit greatly from a new cutting edge treatment called CAR-T cell therapy. The results of this therapy have been extraordinary and it was recommended by one of the highest regarded physicians in the world from Sloan Kettering that Doug should pursue this treatment,” the page says. “Unfortunately the treatment is currently in trial research and not available to Doug under the trial guidelines. This makes obtaining this treatment a very costly proposition and that’s where we are asking for your help.”
But on Sunday morning, former NFL quarterback Sage Rosenfels criticized the Nationals on Twitter for perhaps not offering enough assistance:
If I’m the owner of the @Nationals, which means I’m worth 5.2 Billion Dollars, I’d be embarrassed if one of my employees had to start a GoFundMe page to battle expenses due to leukemia. https://t.co/MrL7mfZrax
— Sage Rosenfels (@SageRosenfels18) July 22, 2018
• Adam Zielonka can be reached at azielonka@washingtontimes.com.
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