SummaryIn a retrospective study, 352 cases of carcinoma of the cecum registered with the Central Cancer Registry of the State of West Virginia during the years 1960‐1970 were analyzed. It was found that cancer of the cecum is more prevalent in women and occurs more frequently after the fourth decade of life, with a tendency for the incidence to remain high until the age of 75 years or more in both men and women.The cases of all patients with cancer of the cecum admitted over a 12‐year period (1959‐1971) to West Virginia University Hospital and the affiliated Veterans Administration Hospital, Clarksburg, West Virginia, were also analyzed. For localized lesions treated with right hemicolectomy, the five‐year survival rate without evidence of disease was 91 per cent. When there was involvement of regional lymph nodes, 50 per cent died of the disease. With disseminated disease, no patient survived more than two years.