Took ~2 years to get approval to be able to seek patient permission to have their discarded tissue sequenced. Now that we are forming questions with the results

Took ~2 years to get approval to be able to seek patient permission to have their discarded tissue sequenced. Now that we are forming questions with the results, I hope it won't take another 2 years to get approval to run new tests :-/ In, retrospect is it even worth it?