Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer – related death in the world .In this study cases are collected from reports of pathology departments of Kasr El –Aini hospital and Al-Salam Centre, all specimens are stained with H &E stain and examined by light microscope ,statistical analysis is done to evaluate incidence of cases &relationship of the disease to other features as: gender ,location ,results :males are more affected, ulcerating gross pattern is more common and pylorus is the commonest site involved by the tumour.