Secretome analysis has gained popularity recently as a very well-designed proteomic approach that is being used to study various interactions and their effects on cellular activity. This analysis is especially helpful while studying the effects of the cells on their microenvironment, paracrine and autocrine processes, their therapeutic purposes, and as a new diagnostic perspective. Cancer is a condition rather than a specific type of disease and is still yet to be fully understood. Cancer secretome is a fairly new concept that is being implemented to examine the interactions taking place in the tumor microenvironment and can help to understand the phenomena like induction of tumorigenesis, stimulation of immune cells, etc. The secretome analysis helps to gain a different perspective on the existing knowledge on cancer and its effects. The recent advances in secretome studies are directed toward secreted components as drug targets, biomarkers, and companion tools for diagnostic and prognostic purposes in cancer. This review aims to find the interactors in different types of cancer and understand the existing unstructured secretome data and its application in prognosis, diagnosis, and in biomarker study.

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