| CSCs | Cancer stem cells |
| BCSCs | Biomarkers of CSCs |
| DE-BCSCs | Differentially expressed BCSCs |
| TCGA | The Cancer Genome Atlas |
| GEO | Gene Expression Omnibus |
| scRNA-seq | single-cell RNA sequencing |
| GO | Gene Ontology |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| LASSO | Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator |
| OS | Overall Survival |
| TME | Tumor microenvironment |
| BLCA | Bladder cancer |
| EMT | Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition |
| UMAP | Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection |
| GSEA | Gene Set Enrichment Analysis |
| LIANA | Ligand–receptor ANalysis frAmework |