There are many symptoms that can be patient from North Carolina when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, however, to start speak … with an Irish accent certainly not what anyone expected.

To be more specific, the patient in question, who was in his 50s, had never visited the Emerald Isle, but simply acquired foreign accent syndrome spoke like an Irishman until his death.

This, of course, is not the only such case recorded in recent years, but it was he who was studied. Duke University as much as from Urological Research Center Carolina.

The researchers note that “to our knowledge, this is the first case of foreign accent syndrome in a patient with prostate cancer and the third found in a patient with malignancy.”

This man lived in England about 20 years old while he had friends and distant relatives from her Irelandalthough he had never been there.

The study confirmed that the patient “had no diagnosed neurological abnormalities, no psychiatric history, or any MRI documenting brain abnormalities when symptoms began.”

Researchers may speculate that the change in the patient’s accent was the result of this. paraneoplastic syndrome, This happens when a cancer patient’s immune system attacks the cells in the brain, as well as the muscles, nerves, and spinal cord.

According to the BBC.