The increasing toll of breast cancer in developing nations is really a devastating situation. The disease once considered as the problem of affluent nations has now rooted firmly in developing nations like India.
Fine–needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the breast is a rapid, cost–effective, and sensitive procedure to diagnose breast lesions, and was widely employed to diagnose breast lesions in the past. Present study is aimed at finding out various cytomorphological patterns of breast lumps at our institute. Fine needle aspiration was performed on the patients and cytological diagnosis was made by experienced cytopathologists. A total number of 300 diagnosed cases were included in the study. the most common finding was fibroadenoma and least common was phyllodes tumor. The most common age group involved was 41–50 years and least common was <20 years.  There are some intrinsic disadvantages to FNAC, of which the most important is probably difficulty in classification of a significant percentage of breast lesions.