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When cancer takes over a young woman's life, most of the world doesn't know how to talk to her about it.
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Friends go quiet. Doctors focus on the illness, not the person. Well-meaning strangers reach for platitudes because the truth is too uncomfortable to sit with.
 

Not because they don't care. Because they've never lived it.

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Cancer Chicks. The Best Worst Club

Isolation, awkward silences, performative positivity, the constant pressure to be "brave." For young women with cancer or chronic illness, the gap between being seen and being understood was enormous.
 

Cancer Chicks knew it couldn't speak like a charity, or a hospital, or anyone offering sympathy from the outside. It had to speak from within the community. So instead of asking people to feel sorry for its members, we built something they'd want to belong to.


The Best Worst Club. A cultural club built on the one truth that mattered most: only those who've lived it know what to say.

We built an entire identity around that idea. A brand that looked aspirational, stylish and full of life, before revealing the reality underneath. Film, social, print and real-world touchpoints designed to meet young women exactly where they were. And a platform that turned lived experience into something visible, relatable and impossible to ignore. Because when the club feels worth joining, the truth inside it finally gets heard.

Credits

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Client: Cancer Chicks

Founder & Director: Michele Molnar

Chief Operations Director: Kerri Filler

Board Member: Kerri Chow


Cancer Chicks:

Lies (Liz) Van Oyen 

Layla Ritchie

Olivia Kleinschafer 

Abbey Tyrwhitt 

Rosie Wilmshurst 

Bec Falvey 

Rhiannon Abshoff 

Luanna Smith 

Steph Kelly 

Bianca Rammesmayer


Agency: The General Store

Managing Director: Sophie Lander

Strategy Planners: Craig McLeod,
Angelica Martin, Karys Kennedy

ECD: Sharon Edmondston

Creatives: Hannah Lawson, Jessica Beal,
Cassandra Wait-Hughes, Stuart Tobin, Mark Scholler
Group Client & Operations Director: Sara Stevenson

Account Director: Sascha Jacobs

Account Manager: Adam Roberts
Design: Reece Lawson, Charlie Greenslade


Production Company: Scoundrel

Director: Jordan Watton

DOP: Don Buppapirak ACS
Executive Producer: Adrian Shapiro
Producer: Olivia Sawyer

Editors: Arc
Sound/Composition: Rumble

VO: Tessa de Josselin

Photographer: Juliet Taylor
Production company: Pool Collective

Executive Producer: Caitlin Perz
Producer: Zoe Izzard

BTS: Photographer/Director: Jeremy Shaw

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