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A 72-year-old woman with advanced heart failure and metastatic breast cancer is breathless at rest despite maximal disease-directed treatment. She is not a candidate for further invasive therapy. Which pharmacological approach is most appropriate for relief of refractory breathlessness at the end of life?

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