The age at which breast cancer is diagnosed in families that carry harmful BRCA mutations appears to be getting younger in succeeding generations, researchers found.

The median age of breast cancer onset in BRCA1 or 2 carriers was six years earlier than for their mothers and aunts, Jennifer Litton, MD, of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and colleagues reported here at the ASCO Breast Cancer Symposium. 12 Oct. 09