Fig. 1.
Mean number of sickness absence (SA) and disability pension (DP) net days per year and by diagnosis for colorectal cancer survivors and for their matched references. Mean number of sickness absence (SA) and disability pension (DP) net days per yearly interval from the second year before (Y-2) until the fifth year after (Y+5) the date of colorectal cancer diagnosis (for references, diagnosis date of matched patient was used). The survivors and references were not included anymore after turning 65 years of age, death, or emigration. In Y-2, people not yet living in Sweden at that time were not included. In the colorectal cancer cohort, the total number of people included in the analyses from Y-2 to Y+5 were 6661, 6679, 6679, 6025, 5553, 4713, and 4005, respectively. For the matched reference cohort, the corresponding numbers were 26613, 26716, 26716, 26493, 26331, 23574, and 20953