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Man Starts Speaking With 'Irish Brogue' After Cancer Treatment
Man Starts Speaking With 'Irish Brogue' After Cancer Treatment
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The patient had apparently never visited Ireland prior to developing his condition and displayed “no neurological examination abnormalities, psychiatric history or MRI of the brain abnormalities at symptom onset.”
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A peculiar development has been reported in the United States where a man reportedly developed an “Irish brogue” accent while being treated for prostate cancer, despite having no Irish background.According to a report published in the British Medical Journal, the patient, a man in his 50s, exhibited this behavior while “receiving androgen deprivation therapy and abiraterone acetate/prednisone,” with his condition apparently being consistent with foreign accent syndrome.The report suggests that the man’s condition might have been a product of paraneoplastic neurological disorder, which occurred when his immune system inadvertently caused damage to parts of his brain while reacting to a tumor elsewhere in his body.Sadly, the patient’s neuroendocrine prostate cancer ended up progressing and causing “multifocal brain metastases,” ultimately leading to the man’s death.
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Man Starts Speaking With 'Irish Brogue' After Cancer Treatment
The patient had apparently never visited Ireland prior to developing his condition and displayed “no neurological examination abnormalities, psychiatric history or MRI of the brain abnormalities at symptom onset.”
A peculiar development has been reported in the United States where a man reportedly developed an “Irish brogue” accent while being treated for prostate cancer, despite having no Irish background.
According to a report published in the British Medical Journal, the patient, a man in his 50s, exhibited this behavior while “receiving androgen deprivation therapy and abiraterone acetate/prednisone,” with his condition apparently being consistent with foreign accent syndrome.
The doctors from Duke University in North Carolina and Carolina Urologic Research Center in South Carolina who penned the case report also observed that the patient had “no neurological examination abnormalities, psychiatric history or MRI of the brain abnormalities at symptom onset.”
The report suggests that the man’s condition might have been a product of paraneoplastic neurological disorder, which occurred when his immune system inadvertently caused damage to parts of his brain while reacting to a tumor elsewhere in his body.
3 February 2023, 09:32 GMT
Sadly, the patient’s neuroendocrine prostate cancer ended up progressing and causing “multifocal brain metastases,” ultimately leading to the man’s death.
