Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the Indian women accounting for 27.7% of all the female cancers in india. Breast lumps are common which require appropriate workup consisting of clinical examination, imaging and fine needle aspiration cytology. Imaging and cytopathology are crucial in categorising these lesions into benign and malignant. There is a requisite to determine the concordance of these these findings and evaluate the diagnostic efficacy. The objectives is to find the correlation of cytopathological diagnosis with imaging findings for provisional diagnosis of breast lumps and to evaluate the utilisation of fine needle aspiration as a cheap, safe method for preoperative assessment of breast lumps.