Accessing the proteome of formalin fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue could lead to discovery of new biomarkers and development of clinically useful assays. A critical step to realizing this potential is developing a simple and reproducible method to obtain proteomic profiles from FFPE tissue. An objective of this work is to develop and optimize a method to obtain proteomic profiles from FFPE breast tissue using a protocol commonly applied in pathology laboratories. The outcome is a method that incorporates steps used for immunohistochemical analyses of FFPE tissue that results in highly reproducible proteomic profiles. Implementing this assay with normal breast tissue and breast tumor tissue produced proteome profiles that reproducibly demonstrate substantial differences between normal vs. tumor tissue.