[Reasons of diagnostic delay of breast cancer in Tunisian women (160 patients in the central region of Tunisia)].

Background: The diagnosis of breast cancer is, in Tunisia, still done at a late stage.

Aim: To identify the principal obstacles against early diagnosis of breast cancer for patients consulting at advanced locally stage or with metastasis.

Methods: We have asked 160 patients with breast cancer showing local T3 or T4 evolution or metastasis at the time of diagnosis, about reasons for the late diagnosis of their breast cancer.