Quentin Oliver Lee, age 34, died of colon cancer on December 1, 2022. A Broadway actor and singer, Lee announced that he was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer just six months ago.
Lee’s devastating and untimely death comes on the heels of bad news: Rates of colorectal cancers, especially among young people, have been rising in the United States and other countries in the industrialized world, according to a recent American Cancer Society report.
Colon cancer in the United States accounted for 7.9 percent of new cancer cases in 2022, and 8.6 percent of deaths, according to the National Cancer Institute. An estimated 52,580 people will die from colon cancer this year.
