[Update urooncology: news with clinical relevance from major scientific meetings 2012].

What is new in urooncology in the year 2012? This review gives a brief but comprehensive overview of new developments in diagnosis and treatment of localized as well as advanced prostate, bladder and kidney cancer which have been presented on the occasion of the annual meetings of the European and American urologic and oncological associations in 2012. Attention is particularly directed to those data and results of trials which might be of direct or indirect clinical relevance.