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We evaluated whether 20- to 30-year-old archival breast cancer FFPE slides could support contemporary DNA and RNA molecular profiling, including tumor subtyping using orthogonal DNA, and RNA-based approaches.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Two archival cohorts were studied: (1) SWOG S8897 low-risk breast tumors stored as 6-\u00b5m unstained FFPE sections on slides for approximately 20-30 years (20 tumors; 19 matched cancer-free lymph nodes [LN]) and (2) similarly aged unrelated FFPE tumor blocks (n = 13) used for assay development. DNA and RNA were extracted with quality assurance\/quality control. DNA profiling included low\/ultra-low-pass whole genome sequencing for copy number analysis (CNA) and IntClust subtyping plus high-depth targeted sequencing using a 93-gene Unique Molecular Identifier (UMI)\u2013based panel. RNA profiling included RNA-seq on block-derived specimens and a custom droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR)\u2013based reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) assay to enable subtype calling from highly fragmented RNA.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      DNA and RNA were recovered from &gt;90% of specimens, despite extensive fragmentation (RNA in a range of 30-100 nt). RNA Access\/Exome and NanoString approaches were unsuccessful in the most degraded slide-derived RNAs, prompting development of the ddPCR-based RT-qPCR assay, which successfully quantified targets and enabled intrinsic-like subtype calling across archival tumors. DNA profiling achieved high success for CNA\/subtyping and UMI-based mutation detection, and the dual RNA\/DNA framework showed strong subtype concordance (ddPCR\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">v<\/jats:italic>\n                      IntClust approximately 87% among evaluable cases).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>CONCLUSION<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Decades-old FFPE slide sections, stored at room temperature with no special conditions, can yield usable DNA along with highly degraded RNA for integrated multiomic molecular profiling and breast cancer subtyping. 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