Prostate cancer incidence, mortality, total and free prostate specific antigen.

The causes of prostate cancer (PC) and its progression are not yet known. Mortality and incidence from PC has increased throughout European countries until early 1990s. In Greece, PC is the second commonest cancer in men after lung cancer.

[The clinical and laboratory findings in Graves' multinodular type disease].

Graves' disease (GD) is an autoimmune thyroid disease characterized among other findings by diffuse goiter. It is possible in GD to find a multinodular goiter (mGD). Are they two different diseases that coexist, or do we have a multinodular type of GD.