[Thyrotoxicosis and thyroid cancer]

The paper is concerned with the results of examination of 41 of 407 thyroid cancer patients in whom cancer was combined with thyrotoxicosis. The succession of occurrence and possible ways of the development of this combination were considered. A study was made of the nature of endocrine changes in patients with thyroid cancer combined with thyrotoxicosis using clinical and laboratory methods. It was shown that the frequency of the combination of thyroid cancer with thyrotoxicosis made 10.1%; it was most common in women (92.68%).