My mom passed away on April 21, 2006 from pancreatic cancer. We only found out she had it in January 2006. She tried gemzar and it didn't help. She got worse pretty quickly. Towards the end, she slept a lot (momma always got up at 5 am) sometimes most of the day,and she couldn't eat. She went in the hospital on April 7 and went to the solace center on the 17th. She spent a week at the hospital without being able to talk to us, only nod her head yes or no. I am so sorry about your mother-in-law. There is a wonderful booklet that hospice gave us called "Out of Sight." I wish someone had given it to us when we found out mom had cancer, it helped so much.