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Table 3 Pilot search results from PubMed database

From: Mapping evidence on the distribution of paediatric cancers in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol

Date of search

Search engine used

Keyword search

Number of publications retrieved

19 Nov. 2018

PubMed

(((((((“Childhood”[Journal] OR “childhood”[All Fields]) AND (“neoplasms”[MeSH Terms] OR “neoplasms”[All Fields] OR “cancer”[All Fields])) OR ((“pediatrics”[MeSH Terms] OR “pediatrics”[All Fields] OR “paediatric”[All Fields]) AND (“neoplasms”[MeSH Terms] OR “neoplasms”[All Fields] OR “cancer”[All Fields]))) AND (“risk factors”[MeSH Terms] OR (“risk”[All Fields] AND “factors”[All Fields]) OR “risk factors”[All Fields])) AND (“epidemiology”[Subheading] OR “epidemiology”[All Fields] OR “prevalence”[All Fields] OR “prevalence”[MeSH Terms])) OR (“mortality”[Subheading] OR “mortality”[All Fields] OR “mortality”[MeSH Terms])) AND (“epidemiology”[Subheading] OR “epidemiology”[All Fields] OR “morbidity”[All Fields] OR “morbidity”[MeSH Terms])) AND trend[All Fields]

21,212