Hi, my husband is in his mid 40's and has bowel cancer (removed) with 4th stage liver mets.Initially the surgeon advised that the number - approx 14 & size of the tumours meant surgery was not viable but may be possible if treatment shrunk the tumours enough. We have insisted from the outset that we wanted the treatment to be aggressive and since changing from Folfox to Folfiri combined with Cetuximab there has been up to 50% decrease in the tumour size & the tumours are all showing as calcified. We have gone back to the surgeon who is now saying his stance on not operating would be the same & that my husband should stay on chemo as it is working so well. He was also referring to the tumours as appearing dead, inactive &/or necrotic. As his initial diagnosis was so poor we felt that shooting for the moon was the best hope and aimed at tumour shrinkage and surgery. We are now a bit confused as the surgeon indicated initially that sufficient shrinkage would put the option of surgery back out there. Does inactive/dead/necrotic mean the cancer is in remission?? He is saying if he operated he would not do a resection but rather just remove any tumour that showed as active. We are seriously considering getting a second opinion as we think the surgeons attitude is more cautious than aggressive. His opinion that we go with indefinite weekly chemo sessions has knocked some of the fight out of my husband. Anybody out there been there, done this, sought secondary advice. We have found that you really need to be pro-active in sourcing treatment and insisting on treatment paths, but at this point are we being unrealistic.Given his treatment results which have seen great shrinkage and a cea drop from in the 600's to under 20 we really thought he was on track. Opinions, suggestions, where do we go from here?????