A bit more of a serious one from us today: a trailer for the documentary 2 in 1.
Cancer is a horrible thing; as a lady says in the trailer, it doesn’t care about age, gender, or social background. Doctors originally diagnosed my dad with bowel cancer, but the cancer spread, and lung cancer killed him.
As the title of this documentary suggests, it will affect 2 in 1 of us. It’s a good reminder to check yourself and see a doctor sooner rather than later, if needed. The rest is from the press release.
Nearly one in two of us will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in our lives. David Nicholas Wilkinson is one of them, twice over.
In 2020, a colonoscopy found his bowel to be extremely healthy for a man his age. Then, in 2023 a FIT test came back clear and, like almost everyone who takes one, he assumed that meant the all-clear. In 2024, a second colonoscopy found bowel cancer. Stage 4. He was told his tumour was 5-6 years old. What went wrong?
A FIT test looks for blood. Wilkinson’s tumour never bled. Nor do a great many others.
Following Treatment
1 IN 2 follows Wilkinson through his own treatment, where he discovers a steep rise in bowel cancer among people far too young for screening, and far too young, it seems, for anyone to believe them. Among those who tell him their stories is a bowel surgeon whose oncologist colleagues—and she herself, in part—dismissed her own symptoms because she was only 44.
Bowel cancer is very insidious; it often strikes with few or no symptoms. One of the participants, an NHS nurse specialising in colonoscopies, had only one symptom: anxiety. 1 IN 2 attempts to flag up early signs, because the one thing no one wants is to end up like director David Nicholas Wilkinson, with stage 4 bowel cancer.
2 in 1 will be released in Nov 2026.
