Abstract: Objective By mains of analysing the clinical and patholigic characteristics of youth gastric cancer,to investigate the surgical treatment. Methods 42 cases of youth gastric cancer treated in our hospital in 1985-1995 were analyzed retrospectively. Results Resection rate is 90.5% and the radical resection rate is 71.4%. The rate of male vs female is 1：1.3. Clinical manisfestions is not specific, Which induced misdiagnosis rate is as high as 42.8%.The poor histologic defferentiation and BorrnannⅢ,Ⅳtype are pr...