Mother-daughter duos talk simultaneous breast cancer battles: 'We lift each other'

Sonia Jeffers and daughter Mysean Powell, and Diana Serano and daughter Miriam Fajardo open up about being diagnosed with breast cancer on "The View."

Imagine being a mother who was diagnosed with breast cancer, and months later you find out your daughter was diagnosed as well. This is the reality two mother-daughter duos faced over the last year.

Sonia Jeffers and her daughter, Mysean Powell, from Savannah, Georgia, and Diana Serano and her daughter, Miriam Fajardo, from Miami, opened up on "The View" Wednesday about the unexpected journey of battling breast cancer side by side.

Dr. Elizabeth Comen, a breast oncologist from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, also joined to shed light on their situation.

"For a mother and a daughter to be diagnosed at the same time is not so common," Comen said. "What is relatively common is for a woman who's been diagnosed with breast cancer to have a first-degree relative, such as a mother or a sister or a daughter, who've been diagnosed."