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. 2021 Jan 13;22(2):747. doi: 10.3390/ijms22020747
AE Adverse Events
ALK Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase
BC Bladder Cancer
BCG Bacillus Calmette–Guérin
BCRP Bruton’s Tyrosine-Kinase
COX-2 Cyclooxygenase-2
CRS Central Serous Retinophaty
CT Chemotherapy
DFS Disease-Free Survival
DLL Delta-like canonical NOTCH ligand
DLT Dose-limiting toxicity
EGF Epidermal Growth Factor
EGFR Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor
FDA Food and Drug Administration
FGF Fibroblast Growth Factor
FGFR Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor
FISH Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization
HDI Human Development Index
HGF Hepatocyte Growth Factor
HIP Hypoxia Inducible Factor
HR Hazard Ratio
IHC Immunohistochemistry
iNOS Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase
IT Immunotherapy
ICI Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors
JAG Jagged Canonical NOTCH ligand
MAPK Mitogen Activated Protein-Kinase
MIBC Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
miRNAs micro-RNAs
mOS Median Overall Survival
mPFS Median Progression–Free Survival
mTOR Mamalian Target of Rapamycin
mUC Metastatic Urothelial Cancer
NGS Next-Generation Sequencing
NMIBC Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer
ORR Overall Response Rate
OS Overall Survival
PCNA Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen
PDGF Platelet-Derived Growth Factor
PFS Progression-Free Survival
PI3K Phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase
PKC Protein kinase C
PLC Phosphatidylinositol-Specific Phospholipase C
PUMA p53-Upregulated Modulator of Apoptosis
RFS Recurrence-free survival
RON Recepteur d’Origine Nantais
SCC Squamous Cell Carcinoma
TCGA The Cancer Genome Atlas
TSC Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
TGF Transforming Growth Factor
TMB Tumor Mutation Burden
UUT-TCC Upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma
VEGF Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
VEGFR Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor