P62b “ …. it’s… cancer”(rising tone).
D63a (D hesitates for 2–3 seconds, shrugs)
D63b “What do you mean, cancer”
P64 “Er, as you’ve just said, it’s…cells that…keep on growing relative to, well…er…everything…to me.”
D65 “That grow on their own, you mean.”
P66 “Right, and...”
D67 “...and that start growing, well, a bit independently.”
P68 “Er... so it’s true that often when they talk about cancer they talk about cells that have a problem of degen..., what is it, degeneration.”
D69 “Mmm, you’re frightened of this word.”
P70 “Well, yes, of course.”
D71 “What does it mean for you?”
P72 (…) “Well, all of what happens next, er, treatment, er, I mean, well, cancer, they often talk about chemotherapy, er, all that, you lose your hair, er, I don’t know, er (...)”
D92 (…) Er, well, chemotherapy not necessarily, it does depend on what we find in the extension work-up, there’s radiotherapy,
with radiation we use to sterilize the cells that are growing, and then there’s surgery, we’ve got different possibilities (...).
Legend: P = Patient, D = doctor
Table 1: Translation of a sequence and its commentary as they appear on the website