A cancer gene called survivin is muted in cells which have undergone differentiation, but it is highly qualitative sample in the overwhelming proportion of malignancies. Over subsequent decades, there has been a lot of curiosity in it. Inhibiting apoptotic, encouraging mitotic, and increasing vascular formation while producing cytotoxic drugs are several crucial characteristics that define it is a good target. These processes, that together promote carcinogenic behaviour, cover the whole spectrum of carcinogenesis, encompassing growth, migratory, or infiltration. Survivin identification independently or coupled in blood and/or urine has become a diagnostic tool for prostate cancer. Furthermore, a number of researches showed that abnormal survivin transcription is linked to a poor prognosis or radiation/drug resistance. Early findings from approaches that target survivin in the treatment of breast carcinoma are encouraging. In order to clarify how this intriguing chemical performs such contradictory function, researchers outline its involvement in the detection, prognosis, as well as therapy of melanoma in this review. The IAP enzyme group, which includes the survival protein (SVN), stimulates cell growth or prevents apoptosis. As a biomarker for autoimmune conditions, hyper plasia, or malignancies, accumulation of Survivin is linked to these conditions. Increasingly acknowledged like a tumor-associated antigen (TAA), SVN has emerged as a crucial focus for the detection or management of malignancy.