A man in the US who was diagnosed with prostate cancer has developed an uncontrollable Irish accent, even though his family is not from Ireland.

This is reported by Sky News with reference to a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). 

A 50-year-old man was receiving standard therapy for patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer.

The report notes that the man had no "abnormalities on neurological examination" after undergoing imaging.

However, the images revealed the progression of the prostate cancer.

The researchers found that despite chemotherapy, the patient's cancer progressed, leading to a multifocal brain tumor and a paraneoplastic neurological disorder called Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS).

The patient whose case is described was in the late stage of cancer, which led to his death.

In total, the report analyzed 49 patients from the UK, North America and Australia who reported having foreign accent syndrome.

It will be recalled that researchers from the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a simple non-invasive test, which, according to the results of the study, can accurately detect 14 different types of stage I cancer.

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