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In our research, in addition to the proposed framework, a comprehensive comparative assessment of traditional machine learning, deep learning, and transformer-based models has been performed to predict breast cancer in a multi-dataset environment. For the purpose of improving diversity and reducing any possible biases in the datasets, our research combined three datasets: breast cancer biopsy morphological (WDBC), biochemical and metabolic properties (Coimbra), and cytological attributes (WBCO), intended to expose the model to heterogeneous feature domains and evaluate robustness under distributional variation. Based on the thorough process conducted in our research involving traditional machine learning models, deep learning models, and transformers, a proposed hybrid architecture referred to as the FT-Transformer-Attention-LSTM-SVM framework has been designed and developed in our research that is compatible and well-suited for the processing and analysis of the given tabular biomedical datasets. The proposed design in the research has an effective performance of 99.90% accuracy in the primary test environment, an average mean accuracy of 99.56% in the 10-fold cross-validation process, and an accuracy of 98.50% in the WBCO test environment, with a considerable margin of significance less than 0.0001 in the paired two-sample t-test comparison process. In our research, we have performed the importance assessment in conjunction with the SHAP and LIME techniques and have demonstrated that its decisions are based upon important attributes such as the values of the attributes of radius, concavity, perimeter, compactness, and texture. 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