Rare 'foreign accent syndrome' has only been detected in two other cancer patients and is more common in stroke sufferers and head injury victims
A prostate cancer patient developed an “uncontrollable Irish accent”, despite never having been to Ireland and having no close family links there, doctors in the US have reported.
The unnamed US patient, who was in his 50s, was being treated for metastatic prostate cancer when he began speaking with the Irish accent, the experts from North Carolina’s Duke University and the Carolina Urologic Research Centre of South Carolina reported. He maintained the accent through about 20 months of treatment before he died.
Although the man had lived in England in his 20s, and had some distant family from Ireland, he had never visited Ireland, nor previously spoken in an Irish accent. “He had no neurological examination abnormalities, psychiatric history or MRI of the brain abnormalities at symptom onset,” the report said.
“Despite chemotherapy, his neuroendocrine prostate cancer progressed resulting in multifocal brain metastases and a likely paraneoplastic ascending paralysis leading to his death."
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