Study of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of breast lesion with histological correlation in a tertiary care centre at Rajkot, Gujarat, India

Abstract Introduction: Nationwide breast cancer has 2nd of the most frequently occurring cancer in females. Method: A retrospective study was conducted at tertiary care centre, Rajkot for a period of 5 months. A total of 120 cases from all age group were enrolled. Clinical details of all the patients were taken. Classification of the patients was done based on diagnostic profile. Results: While assessing the 120 patients we find 91 were benign and 29 were malignant on a cytological interpretation while we conclude additional 21 benign cases and only 8 malignant cases with the help of histopathological overlooking. Hence Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive Predictive Value and Negative Predictive value were 80%, 100%, 100% and 90.47% respectively. This study has given us accuracy of 93.1 %. Conclusion: Breast cancer being the 2nd most common cancer in females as well as due to its raising cases in younger age group demands less invasive, less expensive and less time consuming diagnostic procedure which is fairly fulfilled by FNAC as it gives off higher accuracy measures. Further FNAC correlation with histopatholgy proves its usefulness as a first line diagnostic procedure in any palpable lump on breast.