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.