CLEMENT MARKERT
Thank you Dr. VandeBerg, members and guests of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and participants in the Congress.
In April 1997, Clem Markert was diagnosed with carcinoma of the colon and underwent right hemi-colectomy. The pathology report showed 19 positive lymph nodes in a tumor that had invaded through the bowel serosa. He underwent three months of chemotherapy and was then discovered to have widespread pleural pulmonary metastases. For the next two years, he led a very active life with trips to Alaska and Africa, and boating on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. His course for the past three months, however, was one of steady deterioration - to the point that he knew he would be unable to attend the 10th International Congress. He died on the evening of October 1st, 1999 in Colorado Springs…
