| 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 |