The patient had no Irish background, but developed a rare syndrome called 'foreign accent syndrome'
The patient had no Irish background, but developed a rare syndrome called"foreign accent syndrome" - but what is the speech disorder and why did it occur?A man in the US who was diagnosed with prostate cancer is said to have developed an"uncontrollable Irish accent".
Despite the patient having no Irish background, researchers have said the accent was consistent with foreign accent syndrome , the British Medical Journal reported.This is an approved treatment for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, according to the National Library of Medicine.
The report states that the man had no"neurological examination abnormalities" after undergoing imaging.Researchers found that despite chemotherapy, the patient's cancer progressed, leading to a multifocal brain tumour and a"likely paraneoplastic ascending paralysis".
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