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 |