Founded in 2009, the Association is a nonprofit organization whose main goal is to bring together professionally and scientifically mid-level or above workers in the cytotechnology area, promoting scientific and technical exchange between its members and similar institutions, whether of public, private, non-governmental national or international character.

Anacito has held two international conferences, a state conference and a congress, along with government bodies. Also, it has participated in the definition of professional skills maps in the Mid-level Health Workers Professional Training Program (Profaps), in the elaboration of the ordinance which established the National Qualification in Cytopathology in preventing cervical cancer (QualiCito) and in the inclusion, for the first time in the country, of cytotechnologist as a profession recognized by the Ministry of Labor and Employment.

Cytotechnology arose from the need to support and expand the implementation of the Papanicolaou test. Nowadays, professionals from this area are responsible for the preparation of technical reports that support the diagnosis of many diseases, like cancer, for example, in samples of the entire human body. According the Association's president, Simone Evaristo, cytotechnology is a field in constant motion, which tracks changes and evolves from the development of new knowledge, procedures and technologies worldwide. "The cytological diagnosis established by bright-field microscopy, today, already approaches analysis at a molecular level", she says.