Background: One of the most common malignancies involving the gastrointestinal tract is gastric cancer. It is categorized as an aggressive disease with poor treatment outcome, as most patients remain undetected until later stages, a multifactorial disease involving both genetic and environmental factors in etiology; a wide variance in the occurrence of gastric cancer in various geographical regions (Abdi-Rad et al., 2006, Abuderman, 2019). Checkpoint inhibitor therapy is revolutionizing the oncology disease management process. despite the fact that gastric cancer is a common malignancy with a poor prognosis, relatively little attention has been drawn and attracted to the treatment and diagnosis of this disease by checkpoint inhibitor therapy (Kang YK, 2017). Objectives: The aims of this study To compare between (a modified ELISA method) and immunohistochemistry (IHC) for those immunological markers PD-1, PD-L1 as a best rapid, sensitive and specific diagnostic methods in patients with Gastric Cancer. Patients and methods: Thirty gastric cancer patients were included, they were among patients who attending the Histopathology department -GIT hospital and Histopathology department- Teaching laboratories/ medical city teaching complex Baghdad / Ministry of Health, during the period from August 2020 to April 2021.