When it is finally detected that you or any loved one has been indeed affected by mesothelioma, the mesothelioma doctor will conduct a series of experiments and tests to confirm the disease as well as its current stage. Apart from the biopsy for the abdominal part of your body and thoracoscopy for chest infections, other tests can also be conducted by him to find out the exact dimension of your ailment. 

Sometimes the doctors will prefer laparoscopy for detecting the affected areas in the abdominal part of your body. The process is to make a tiny opening in your abdomen and inserting specially made equipment in the cavity to get tissues for testing. However, if the process fails to procure sufficient number of tissues, other expensive processes like surgery could be resorted to. 

One of the latest processes is the Mesomark assay testing where the levels of soluble proteins that are released from the affected cells are measured.  This process has been found to be quite affective in early detection of mesothelioma. In result the possibility of survival of the affected patients has improved considerably.   

Difficulties in early diagnosis of the disease and mesothelioma treatments have been the absence of any effective system of screening of such people who are constantly exposed to the asbestos threats. It has been suggested from research scholars that serum ostepontin could be useful in such screening for detect mesothelioma.