Evidence based medicine is standard of practice for all clinicians; we cannot practice medicine and prescribe or recommend treatment if we do not know the publications in that field. Highly cited papers translate into incorporation of new guidelines and updating of clinical practice regimens to ensure the best and most safe treatment is offered to the patient to ensure optimal quality of life and survival.

This text serves as a one-stop book of the key papers published in the field of Neurosurgical Oncology. This is a source of reference for continuing professional development while providing key facts of the most highly cited papers ever published in this important field which has an overlap with Neurosurgery, Neurology, Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Radiology and Head and Neck - thereby having a multitude of readers from a diverse and global background.

This book will have three main target audiences: neurosurgeons in practice and wanting to keep updated with the field of Neurosurgical Oncology and/or studying for maintenance of certification exams, neurosurgeons in training - residents, trainees and fellows learning the discipline of Neurosurgery and studying for exams, and allied sister specialties of Neuro-Oncology, Head and Neck/Maxillo-facial surgery, Radiation Oncology widening their knowledge base of Neurosurgical Oncology.