==== Front Middle East Afr J OphthalmolMiddle East Afr J OphthalmolMEAJOMiddle East African Journal of Ophthalmology0974-92330975-1599Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd India MEAJO-25-5910.4103/meajo.MEAJO_158_18Editorial CommentaryOcular Oncology: Saving Sight, Saving Lives Gündüz Ahmet Kaan Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, TurkeyAddress for correspondence: Dr. Ahmet Kaan Gündüz, Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: drkaangunduz@gmail.comApr-Jun 2018 25 2 59 59 Copyright: © 2018 Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology2018This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. ==== Body It is my distinct pleasure to write this editorial for the special ocular oncology issue of MEAJO. Ocular oncology is a highly specialized and focused subspecialty in ophthalmology that has made significant progress in the diagnosis and treatment of sight and life threatening diseases. The topics included in this issue represent a spectrum of ocular oncologic problems from eyelid tumors to intraocular masses and orbital lesions. Many distinguished authors have contributed their interesting and in some instances groundbreaking work to this issue. Dr. Carol Shields and associates submitted the largest choroidal metastasis series currently available in the literature comprising 1111 patients.[1] It has been more than 20 years since the publication of their 1997 paper on uveal metastases which included 420 patients at that time.[2] Other interesting topics in this issue include orbital metastasis, staging of uveal melanoma, retinoblastoma treatment, eyelid carcinoma, and intraocular surgery for melanoma.[34567] Some of the articles are original research papers, whereas others are review articles or short case reports. We have contributions from many countries which gives the reader the opportunity to be aware of global practices and challenges in the field of ocular oncology. I would like to thank Dr. Deepak Edward, the Editor-in-Chief of MEAJO, and the editorial team of MEAJO, Mr. Mohammed Mohsin in particular, for their collaboration, help, and understanding in the preparation of this issue. I also extend my sincere thanks to all our contributing authors from various countries for their effort and time in the preparation of articles in this issue. After being indexed on PubMed, MEAJO is now listed as an emerging Science Citation Index (SCI) journal. It is on the way of being included in the SCI-expanded group of journals. Nevertheless, our policy is never to say “enough.” As part of the MEAJO family, we will continue to improve our journal to make it an ever more referenced journal on PubMed with higher impact factor scores. In an era where predatory journals are emerging at an unprecedented pace and pose a threat to academic medicine, we call on authors from all countries to consider MEAJO as a safe, reliable, and honest alternative platform for publication of their work. With my warmest regards. ==== Refs 1 Shields CL Welch RJ Malik K Acaba-Berrocal LA Selzer EB Newman JH Uveal metastasis: Clinical features and survival outcome of 2214 tumors in 1111 patients based on based on primary tumor origin Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol 2018 25 81 90 2 Shields CL Shields JA Gross NE Schwartz GP Lally SE Survey of 520 eyes with uveal metastases Ophthalmology 1997 104 1265 76 9261313 3 Cohen VM Pavlidou E Costa JD Arora AK Szyszko T Sagoo MS Staging uveal melanoma with whole-body positron-emission tomography/computed tomography and abdominal ultrasound: Low incidence of metastatic disease, high incidence of second primary cancers Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol 2018 25 91 5 4 Al Wohaib M AlAhmadi R Al-Sharif E Maktabbi A AlKatan H Khandekar R Characteristics and factors related to eyelid basal cell carcinoma in Saudi Arabia Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol 2018 25 96 102 5 Spencer MA Welch RJ Shields CL Hand-held optical coherence tomography monitoring of submillimeter retinoblastoma treated with indocyanine green-enhanced transpupillary therapy Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol 2018 25 108 10 6 Allen RC Orbital metastases: When to suspect? When to biopsy? Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol 2018 25 60 4 7 Hamza HS Elhusseiny AM Choroidal melanoma resection Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol 2018 25 65 70