The team believes this is the first case reported in the SAF medical literature as a result of prostate cancer.
A man developed a weird accent syndrome (FAS) as a rare and perhaps unique manifestation of his prostate cancer, his doctors have described.
The case refers to a man, in the house of 50 yearswas diagnosed with prostate cancer 20 months before of your speech problems. At that time, he reported notable changes in his habitual speech patternsto the extent that he had begun to speak with an “Irish-speaking” accent.
“The patient never been to ireland and had never spoken with an Irish accent, although he had Irish family/friends and had lived briefly in England when I was 20 years old“, wrote to medical team about the man, who lived in California. “His accent was uncontrollable, present in all scenarios and gradually became persistent“.
The patient told the doctors that he had not suffered any head trauma, nor any other symptoms other than involuntary weight loss. One MRI of his brain returned to normal, but a CT scan of his pelvis and abdomen revealed that his prostate cancer was to progress. In addition to being diagnosed with APS, he was referred to neurology for further investigation.
the FAS is extremely rarehaving only about 100 people in the world been diagnosed with this strange condition. Most cases occurred after a traumatic head injury or one stroke, resulting in damage to the areas of the brain responsible for speech. Often the condition it is not permanent and disappearsfor example, as the patient recovers from a stroke.
Although called foreign accent syndrome, the condition does not actually confer a new accent inexplicable. The change in sounds produced by people with the condition is often caused by altered movements of jaw and tongue of the patient. It’s likely that the foreign accent is only really on the minds of the people who hear it, a way of paridolia.
three months after the appearance of this condition and already while receiving treatment for his cancer, the patient still spoke with an accent Irish. In addition, he had developed abdominal and leg pain. When the team examined him, they found that the cancer had spread to the liver and bones. The cancer progressed further through metastasis for your brain.
The team believes that his foreign accent syndrome was caused by paraneoplastic syndrome, given that it can be associated with prostate cancer, and that the progression of his APS coincided with the progression of the cancer. Paraneoplastic syndromes, the team writes, are systemic symptoms caused by abnormal masses “through hormonal, immune-mediated or unknown mechanisms”.
The team believes that this is the first case reported in the APS medical literature as a result of prostate cancer, although two others have been reported in patients with other malignant cancers. The team hopes that the case highlights the need for more literature on APS and paraneoplastic syndromes in cancer patients, to better understand the link between the rare syndromes.
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