Background: Breast diseases are very common throughout the world with wide variety of patterns of presentation across the globe. The study was done in a tertiary care center with rural set up in a rural area of India to know the specific incidence of different breast disorders with respect to age and sex of the patient, best method for early diagnosis, fallacies in clinical diagnosis and to find out the sensitivity of FNAC in correlation with histopathological or surgical confirmation. Method: This is a prospective study conducted on patients attending outpatient department in a tertiary care center with breast symptoms. It was conducted for a period of two years. Detailed history was noted. They were assessed clinically and their diagnosis was confirmed by cytological (FNAC) or histopathological (biopsy) examination. Results: 237 cases of breast disease were diagnosed which include 222 females and 15 males. The ratio between benign 210 (88.61%) and malignant 27 (11.39 %) lesions was 7.8:1. Among all the benign breast diseases, ANDI (29.11 %) was the commonest, followed by Fibroadenoma (25.31 %) & Breast abscess (14.35 %) in decreasing order of frequency respectively whereas carcinoma of breast was common in age group above fourty years of life. Conclusion: We conclude from our study that the females

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