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It will help you to know how your medical team is planning to make the definitive diagnosis if there isn’t one yet. You need to know if there’s going to be another biopsy, and if so when, or if special stains are being used on the tissue sample, or more blood tests are being done, or if the tumour sample—as is commonly done—is being shown to other pathologists or sent to other centres. These are relatively simple questions to ask, and to answer, and knowing the plan for the next stage will make you feel a bit easier.