“…Together with other recent reports, including experimental and epidemiological data evaluations [Chan et al, 2000;Hessel et al, 2000;Soutar et al, 2000;Carta et al, 2001;Cocco et al, 2001], the present study provides additional information of interest to further evaluate the association between silica and lung cancer [IARC, 1997;Steenland et al, 2001].…”