Figure 1.

Cumulative total mortality is illustrated among 1431 participants from the Women’s Health Initiative who were diagnosed with colorectal cancer, by tertile of social support. The model is adjusted for age at diagnosis (continuous), time between social assessment and diagnosis (continuous), race/ethnicity (non-Hispanic white [reference category], African-American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, other), and stage and grade (local [reference category], regional, distant and well differentiated/moderately differentiated, distant and nondifferentiated/anaplastic).