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Table 5 Oncologist talks optimistically

From: Oncologist responses to advanced cancer patients’ lived illness experiences and effects: an applied conversation analysis study

1.

O:

[so] we eh: we are eh: with our nuclear colleagues we are •h

2.

 

tryin’ to b- a combination of those two substances eh: to

3.

 

(0.4) eh: (.) administer;

4.

 

(0.6) •pt. in a in a study;

5.

P:

yes:yes;

6.

O:

>yes that that, hg we can [hopefully in the-]

7.

P:

[well I hope I’ll] make it;

8.

O:

•h well,

9.

 

(0.5) this looks- so far all looks good so that: that’s

10.

 

right?

11.

P:

yes: [well as long as this] is good,

12.

O:

[now it’s starting to work,]

13.

P:

yes well well!;

14.

O:

•h it can be that eh: that eh this treatment,

15.

 

eh: (.) it will work for (0.3) one and a half years [he so that eh: if it]

16.

P:

[h↓m: if it]

17.

 

works well but [in the meantime]

18.

O:

[if it works well;]

19.

 

(0.5) so we’ll keep’ [all options:]

20.

P:

[a lot is happening] still;

21.

O:

exactly;

22.

 

exactly;

23.

 

[op- we’ll] keep all options open,

24.

N:

[yes:;]

25.

O:

•h and eh: they‘r indeed many new treatments coming up;

26.

 

the psma is one of them,

27.

 

but: also one is coming one •h one treatment with olaparib (.) one

28.

 

different (0.2) new (0.5) drug which maybe is just as good

29.

 

and maybe even better than that psma-therapie,

30.

P:

hmm,

31.

O:

so a lot of new things are coming up so;

32.

 

•h

33.

P:

yesyes;

34.

O:

that’s eh;

35.

P:

We’ll wait for them and I hope I’ll still make it;

36.

 

so eh: he,

37.

O:

yes;

38.

 

•h okay;

39.

 

and briefly (0.4) back to eh: the order of the day [>because we:<]

40.

P:

[yes]