In a sample of 306 patients with superficial bladder tumors (T(a), T(1)), 48 were affected by associated carcinoma in situ (TIS). We included 40 of them in a random program with Mitomycin C or Adriamycin, administered endovesically. We found that those patients with associated TIS whose progression rate had increased to 37.1% compared to 8.8% in the original series (p