Pathway analysis of the 195 genes that were predicted targets of the microRNAs and present in the gene expression analysis revealed that microRNAs potentially affect, among others, hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) signaling, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) signaling and molecular mechanisms of cancer pathways in bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis (Table 1). Here, IGF1 is linked to cancer.