TABLE 1.

Search strategy terms in selected databases.

Database	Query	Articles
Scopus	TITLE‐ABS‐KEY (cancer) AND TITLE‐ABS‐KEY (Afghanistan) AND TITLE‐ABS‐KEY (breast OR stomach OR gastric OR cervical OR lung OR pulmonary OR colorectum OR colon OR rectum OR anus) AND TITLE‐ABS‐KEY (epidemiology OR incidence OR prevalence OR mortality) AND (LIMIT‐TO [LANGUAGE, “English”])	42
PubMed	((Afghanistan[Title/Abstract]) OR (Afghanistan[MeSH Terms])) AND ((cancer[Title/Abstract]) OR (cancer[MeSH Terms])) AND (((breast[Title/Abstract]) OR (stomach[Title/Abstract]) OR (gastric[Title/Abstract]) OR (cervical[Title/Abstract]) OR (lung[Title/Abstract]) OR (pulmonary[Title/Abstract]) OR (colorectum[Title/Abstract]) OR (colon[Title/Abstract]) OR (rectum[Title/Abstract]) OR (anus[Title/Abstract])) OR ((breast[MeSH Terms]) OR (stomach[MeSH Terms]) OR (gastric[MeSH Terms]) OR (cervical[MeSH Terms]) OR (lung[MeSH Terms]) OR (pulmonary[MeSH Terms]) OR (colon[MeSH Terms]) OR (rectum[MeSH Terms]) OR (anus[MeSH Terms]))) AND (((epidemiology[Title/Abstract]) OR (incidence[Title/Abstract]) OR (prevalence[Title/Abstract]) OR (mortality[Title/Abstract])) OR ((epidemiology[MeSH Terms]) OR (incidence[MeSH Terms]) OR (prevalence[MeSH Terms]) OR (mortality[MeSH Terms])))	21
Google Scholar	“Afghanistan” “cancer” (10 pages reviewed)	100
	Afghanistan “cancer” epidemiology prevalence incidence mortality breast stomach gastric cervical lung pulmonary colorectum colon rectum anus	104