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A 76-year-old woman with advanced heart failure and metastatic cancer is bedbound and thought to be in the last days of life. She has increasing pain not controlled by regular Paracetamol. What is the most appropriate first-line strong opioid for continuous pain at the end of life in a patient with normal renal function?

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