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. 2022 Aug 2;23(15):8597. doi: 10.3390/ijms23158597
ANG Angiogenin
AUC Area under the curve
AS Active surveillance
BC Bladder cancer
BCG Bacille Calmette–Guérin
BE Bladder EpiCheck
BIAS Bladder Cancer Italian Active Surveillance
BTA Bladder tumour antigen
BTG2 B cell translocation gene 2
cfDNA Cell-free DNA
CIS Carcinoma in situ
CK Cytokeratin
CS Cystoscopy surveillance
CSS Cancer-specific survival
CYFRA 21.1 Cytokeratin fragment 21.1
DDX17 DEAD-Box Helicase 17
DFS Disease-free survival
GC-MS gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
GC-TOFMS gas chromatography coupled to a time-of-flight mass spectrometer
EAU European Association of Urology
EMA European Medicines Agency
EV Extracellular Vesicles
FFS Failure free-survival
HG High grade
HPLC high-performance liquid chromatography
IHC Immunohistochemistry staining
iTRAQ Isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation
LC-MS liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
LG Low grade
lncRNA Long non-coding RNAs
MDR Minimal residual disease
MIBC Muscle-invasive bladder cancer
NMIBC Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer
NMP22 Nuclear matrix protein 22
NMR nuclear magnetic resonance
NPV Negative predictive value
OPLS-DA Orthogonal Projections to Latent Structures Discriminant Analysis
OS Overall survival
pCR pathologic complete response
PD-L1 Programmed death-ligand 1
PFS Progression-free survival
PPV Positive predictive value
qMSP quantitative Methylation Specific PCR
SERS surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
TERC Telomerase RNA component
TURBT Transurethral resection of bladder tumour
UBC Urothelial bladder cancer
UBT Urinary biomarker test
UC Urothelial carcinoma
UPLC-MS Ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry
VOC volatile organic compounds
WLC White-light cystoscopy