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This work aims to study breast cancer diagnosis using the associative classification technique. It generates interpretable diagnosis models. In this work, an associative classification approach for breast cancer diagnosis based on the Discrete Equilibrium Optimization Algorithm (DEOA) named Discrete Equilibrium Optimization Algorithm for Associative Classification (DEOA-AC) is proposed. DEOA-AC aims to generate accurate and interpretable diagnosis rules directly from datasets. Firstly, all features in the dataset that contains continuous values are discretized. Secondly, for each class, a new dataset is created from the original dataset and contains only the chosen class\u2019s instances. Finally, the new proposed DEOA is called for each new dataset to generate an optimal rule set. The DEOA-AC approach is evaluated on five well-known and recently used breast cancer datasets and compared with two recently proposed and three classical breast cancer diagnosis algorithms. 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