4 Star

The Big C, at a Small Age.

Writer, director, Bowel Cancer patient David Wilkinson (The First Film, The Marbles) takes us on a very personal journey, through his misdiegnosis in 2020, of early bowel cancer to his late Stage Four diagnosis, and his journey to research what is going on with others with late diagnosis of cancer, but predominately bowel cance in people under the age of fifty.

Bowel Cancer Support Group UK

“Men aged sixty-nine get bowel cancer.”

Dame Deborah Anne James DBE,

I got bowel cancer in my sixty-nineth year, so she was right…

This documentary may save Your life.

The problem with that quote is that when David was diagnosed it was with stage four bowel cancer and the cancer was four years old, and when all the doctors and the Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) were coming back clear, they were clearly wrong.

With this devastating diagnosis David decides that he will film his story for posterity, and with some research he is shocked to find that more and more people in the prime of life, especially women are having their lives ruined by the same diagnosis as him.

David and his team film his two year journey as he visits younger people, and their experiences with G.P’s, tests and the NHS (who everybody supports), but especially with women under the age of fifty, being fobbed off with “womens problems”. and there are also mens problems as well, but David consentrates mainly on the female side of the story, and the people and charity’s that are making headways into finding treatment’s too improve the lives of those with this life changing diagnoses’.

It’s like weeding the garden

Bowel cancer is a very dangerous for the surgeons, and the result can be life changing, with Stoma bags replacing the bowels function’s, and the problems there-in.

Sh!t literally everywhere.

Stoma Talk & Support UK

1 in 2 is a very important documentary that should been seen by all ages, and it will have you thinking about all those small niggling pains, and strange lumps, and quite rightly so.