1.Introduction: cardiac tumors in the era of cardiovascular surgery and imaging 2.Cardiac tumors: classification and epidemiology 3.Cardiac myxoma 4.Other benign cardiac tumors 5.Cardiac tumors in the paediatric age 6.Primary malignant cardiac tumors 7.Cardiac metastases 8.Echocardiographic diagnosis 9.New cardiac imaging techniques: magnetic resonance and computed tomography 10.Cardiac surgery 11.Chemotherapy and cardiotoxicity