[Combination chemotherapy with adriamycin, carboquone and 5-Fu for bladder cancer]

We treated 25 bladder cancer patients with combined cytotoxic chemotherapy of adriamycin (10--20 mg/day administration on days 1, 2 and 3), carboquone (4 mg/day administration on day 1 of weeks 3, 4 and 5 and 5-Fu (200 mg/day for 5 weeks) or futraful suppositories (750 mg/day for 5 weeks) as one course. According to the Koyama - Saitoh criteria, CR + PR was observed in 4 (17.4%) of 23 patients excluding the 2 dropout patients. According to Karnofsky's criteria, an effect with chemotherapy was observed in 9 (39.1%) of the 23 patients. There was a relatively good response rate in a group of 12 patients with the superficial tumors as compared with a group of 11 patients with the deep tumors. There were no severe adverse reactions.