An American was diagnosed with cancer, and after that he spoke with an Irish accent: how is this possible

The American began speaking with an "uncontrollable Irish accent" after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. However, he has never been to Ireland. The edition told in more detail with the BBC.

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A 50-year-old man from North Carolina allegedly developed foreign accent syndrome (FAS).

Because of this rare syndrome, the man, who had no close relatives from Ireland, spoke with a thick accent until his death.

In recent years, only a few such cases have been recorded in the world.

This case was jointly studied by scientists from Duke University in North Carolina and the Carolina Urological Research Center in South Carolina.

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“To our knowledge, this is the first case of FAS described in a patient with prostate cancer and the third described in a patient with malignancy,” the scientists noted.

The report says, among other things, that in his youth the man lived for some time in England, had friends and distant relatives from Ireland, but had never spoken with a foreign accent before.

“His accent was uncontrollable, present in all situations, and gradually became stable,” the researchers said, and noticed that the accent first appeared after 20 months of treatment.

Even as his health deteriorated, the accent remained - and he spoke so until his death a few months later.

“He had no abnormal neurological examination, brain MRI at the time of symptom onset, or a history of psychiatric disorders,” the report said. “Despite chemotherapy, his neuroendocrine prostate cancer progressed, leading to multifocal brain metastases and probable ascending paraneoplastic palsy, which led to his death.”

Scientists suspect that the changes in his speech caused the so-called paraneoplastic neurological disorder (PND).

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This condition occurs when cancer patients' immune systems attack parts of their brains, as well as their muscles, nerves, and spinal cord.

In 2006, Briton Linda Walker suffered a stroke and discovered that her accent had changed to Jamaican.

One of the first cases was recorded in 1941, when a young Norwegian woman began to speak with a German accent after she was wounded by a fragmentation bomb during an air raid during the Second World War.

After that, the woman was shunned by the locals, who considered her a Nazi spy.

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