Materials and Methods:  A total of 59 patients of breast carcinoma, aged 28-57 years, were aspirated and the smears were graded using Robinson's criteria. All the cases were correlated with Bloom Richardson's grade on histopathology in mastectomy specimens. Lymphadenopathy in 38 cases was aspirated and stained with Papanicolaou and Romanowsky stain.

Conclusions: Thus, CG of breast carcinoma correlates well with histopathological grading and may well be useful as a prognostic marker.

Santosh kumar mondal md is currently professor & head, department of pathology at aiims (all india institute of medical sciences), kalyani, west bengal. He obtained his mbbs from north bengal medical college in 1994 and md (pathology) from institute of postgraduate medical education and research (sskm hospital) in 2000. He received post-md training in oncopathology at tata memorial hospital (tmh), mumbai, for 6 months. He has undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience of more than 18 years. He has acted as both external and internal examiner of various examinations such as md (pathology), dcp, mbbs, dmlt etc. He is nabl assessor and part of quality council of india(qci). He has to his credit  82 published articles in different indexed international and national journals. These publications have 1553 citations in different journals and research works.