Interpreters' experiences of participating in an introduction course in the healthcare sector. An ethnographic field observation study.

Aim: We aimed to explore how interpreters experienced being part of a special designed health introduction course and to obtain their perspectives on the learning process. The overall aim was to improve health care to patients with language barriers.

Design: With a hermeneutic phenomenological approach, we used participant observations as a method for collecting data.

'I had to stifle my feelings' - Bilingual health professionals translating for family members in a healthcare setting. A qualitative study.

Background: As an alternative to a professional interpreter, children or relatives often act as so-called 'language brokers' in the healthcare sector. Litterature have demonstrated that the cultural context is significant for the potential outcome for child language brokers. For individuals from a collectivistic family pattern, it becomes natural and is often regarded as respectful, to assist older relatives day and night.

The "Leuven" paclitaxel/carboplatin weekly regimen in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer, a retrospective study.

Objective: To evaluate the "Leuven" weekly paclitaxel/carboplatinum (TC) regimen in recurrent ovarian cancer in a retrospective study.

Methods: Eighteen courses of paclitaxel (60mg/m(2)) and carboplatinum (AUC 2.7) were administered weekly.

Hysteroscopic morcellator system can be used for removal of a uterine septum.

Objective: To evaluate whether the hysteroscopic morcellator (HM) can be used as an alternative for uterine septum removal.

Design: Case report.

Setting: Outpatient clinic of a university-affiliated teaching hospital (Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, the Netherlands).

Stage III and IV endometrial cancer: a 20-year review of patients.

In advanced endometrial cancer, the importance of peritoneal cytology and optimal surgical cytoreduction remain subjects of discussion. We evaluated our clinical experience of 67 patients with FIGO stage III and IV endometrial cancer treated in the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam over a 20-year period with an emphasis on stage IIIA disease based on positive cytology only and optimal cytoreduction. Lymphadenectomy was not routinely performed and peritoneal cytology was examined in 74% of the patients.