By Christine Heard.
I meet Oliver at the CanRevive office in Sydney's Chinatown.
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CanRevive is a service set up for Chinese-speaking cancer sufferers and the staff there are just gorgeous.
But behind their warm welcomes and wonderful enthusiasm is many years of sadness.
They've all either had cancer, or watched a loved one die from it.
It was CanRevive that helped Oliver get through his cancer batte. And today you'd never guess that this middle-aged, well dressed, softly spoken, fit-looking man has had a liver transplant.
When I sit down with Oliver he tells me that he watched his own father die of cirrhosis of the liver when he was just ten years old.
Even though his father knew his condition was brought on by Hepatitis B, he didn't have his children checked for this disease.
But when Oliver fell ill in his late 30s, he remembers his father's suffering and asked his GP for a Hep B blood test. It came back positive.
"Emotionally I felt really sad, you know," Oliver tells me. "I thought maybe I'd become like my father."
Oliver kept his Hep B status a secret.
Being a carrier of this infectious disease, spread through blood to blood contact, was not something he wanted his community to know about.
But he did start seeing a liver specialist, and that decision saved his life.
Eight years into his regular six-monthly visits the specialist detected small cancers on Oliver's liver.
Because they were still small, Oliver was eligible for a liver transplant and seven years on from that operation, Oliver is grateful to be alive.
"Ask your doctor for a blood test," he says to anyone of Southeast Asian origin.
"No, not just a blood test, a Hep B blood test."
But sadly, Oliver's survival story is rare.
Liver cancer is a disease with a very high mortality rate, with 90 percent of sufferers dying within five years of diagnosis.
And because Hepatitis B, when contracted while very young, has no symptoms, many carriers are oblivious to their status until the virus morphs into cirrohsis of the liver or cancer.
And this is where southwestern Sydney comes in.
