This Erdheim-Chester Disease Awareness Week, we’re honored to introduce you to Edith and Mike Watters, a remarkable couple whose journey reflects the courage, resilience, and creativity of our community. Edith is living with Erdheim-Chester Disease (ECD), an...
At the 2025 Erdhem-Chester Disease Medical Symposium in Barcelona, the ECDGA Junior Investigator Award went to Laura Eurelings of Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam. Her poster, “Anti-IL-6 Therapy in Rare Histiocytic Disorders: Erdheim-Chester and...
ECD Awareness Week is September 8–14, 2025, and we need YOU to help raise awareness and show the world what it means to be part of the ECD family. Awareness Week is important because Erdheim-Chester Disease (ECD) is so rare that many people— even in the medical...
Erdheim-Chester Disease, also called ECD, is a very rare kind of blood cancer. It is so rare that some medical articles estimate that only about 2,000 cases around the world have been documented. Our bodies have special cells called histiocytes. Normally, these cells...
