Mr Plaha talks about where brain tumour surgery was 5 years ago, shares where we are now with the changing philosophy and management of brain tumours, including new surgery technical advances – minimally invasive endoscopic surgery and awake craniotomy. Mr Puneet Plaha is Consultant Neuro oncology Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/