| AUC | Area Under the Curve |
| BCR | BioChemical Recurrence |
| CAPRA | Cancer of the Prostate Risk Assessment |
| CF | Clinical Failure |
| cfDNA | circulating cell-free DNA |
| COBRAc | COmbined Bisulphite Restriction Analysis |
| ctDNA | circulating tumour DNA |
| ddPCR | Droplet Digital PCR |
| Df | Degrees of freedom |
| DMR | Differentially Methylated Regions |
| ERRBS | Enhanced Reduced Representation Bisulphite Sequencing |
| FFPET | Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tissue |
| GS | Gleason Score |
| HM27K | Infinium HumanMethylation 27K Microarray |
| WGBS | Whole Genome Bisulphite Sequencing |
| HM450K | Infinium HumanMethylation 450K Microarray |
| HR | Hazard Ratio |
| IQR | InterQuartile Range |
| LR | Likelihood Ratio |
| M | Multivariate |
| MBDCap-Seq | Methyl-CpG Binding Domain Capture sequencing |
| MSP | Methylation-Specific PCR |
| PCa | Prostate Cancer |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| PSA | Prostate-Specific Antigen |
| qMSP | quantitative Methylation-Specific PCR |
| RP | Radical Prostatectomy |
| RRBS | Reduced Representation Bisulphite Sequencing |
| TCGA | The Cancer Genome Atlas |
| TURP | TransUrethral Resection of the Prostate |
| U | Univariate |