The cure for cancer has already been found.

Round 2 rebuttalsOutlineI. IntroII. Alternate routes for ConIII. Information overloadIV. Definition of cureV. Disease preventionVI. Free radicals and antioxidantsVII. ExerciseVIII. White blood cells and cancer in blood streamIX. ConclusionX. SourcesI. Intro Thanks for accepting the debate. My opponent attacks whether or not I fulfilled my side of the burden of proof. Claiming I haven't provided enough evidence that the combination of diet and exercise are enough to be a cure versus a treatment. That means my opponent has already conceded some ground, in the sense that a plant based diet and exercise do have some affect on cancer. In contrast many opponents claim a plant based diet is not even a treatment. We will fight over the ground between a treatment and cure for the remainder of this debate.II. Alternate routes for ConCon could have taken many routes. Example, "if there really is a cure why is not x, y, and z true"? Nevertheless, my opponent makes a reasonably good case as why to deviate from the structure, and thus I accept my opponent reasons as sufficient. Therefore, I will address my opponent's round 1 rebuttal. III. Information overloadI do agree for the average high school student my round one argument would be information overload. Yet, cancer is a complicated disease and the situation warranted this course of action. Furthermore, if I had twelve scientifically peer reviewed articles stating a whole foods plant based diet & exercise cured cancer I would have used them and this debate would be drastically different. The problem is like a syndrome that is composed by numerous detrimental factors, a healthy lifestyle cure is composed of many beneficial factors. Alone, these healthy lifestyle actions act as only a treatment or a preventive measure. Together, they form a cure. The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. Therefore, it was absolutely necessary for me to present this case in the format in round one. IV. Definition of cureI agree to your definition of cure. Though the word "nearly" does leave some room for interpretation. Here's an example of a disease being cured. "Patients treated with appropriate antibiotics in the early stages of Lyme disease usually recover rapidly and completely. " [12]Therefore, just as there is a cure for Lyme disease if caught early enough there is a cure for cancer if caught early enough. Advanced stages of cancer should be excluded because this would put an unfair burden of proof on me. Think about it, many other diseases with cures cannot be cured if the disease progresses beyond a certain point. V. Disease preventionPreventing cancer from spreading is very important. It is common knowledge that a person can have cancer in more than one place. Also, because cancer cells are living and will die eventually, simply halting the spread of the disease will eventually eradicate the cancer within the individual, thus curing the person. If you contain a weed to a small area, eventually the plant will die off. Since the weed was unable to spread, you eradicated the weed. I contend that giving the nature of the disease, cancer can be cured via potent preventive measures. Furthermore, if a surgeon surgically removes cancer from place A and then the cancer spreads to place B, I would not call this a cure. If however, the cancer was unable to spread to location B this would be a cure. Therefore, just a doctor often prescribes multiple medicines and methods, a healthy lifestyle can be used in combination with surgery to cure the disease. VI. Free radicals and antioxidantsThe body has an incredibly efficient DNA repair system. [13] Antioxidants don't need to stop every free radical, only reduce the number of free radicals. Btw, your [2] link and [3] link do not work for me. VII. Exercise"The opponent also refers to excersize as helping reduce the likelihood of getting cancer. While this can't be denied, the fact that many very healthy people get cancer and die from it indicates that we certainly can't call exercise a cure." CobaltThis is easily the weakest statement in my opponent's response. I never claimed exercise can cure cancer within itself. Exercise in combination with a plant based diet acts as a cure. If I said water, H2O, could perform x action, and you said Hydrogen cannot perform x, this would be an ineffective rebuttal. Same here, exercise alone acts as a treatment. When enough treatments are combined they form a cure. VIII. White blood cells and cancer in blood streamThis is a great start because cancer often spreads via the blood stream. How else would cancer be in the lung and suddenly spread to the foot? Think of the diet as a quarantine. If you quarantine a disease long enough, eventually the disease will be eradicated. IX. Conclusion"The opponent cannot meet his burden of proof, as "a good diet and exercise" does not trigger any bodily mechanism capable of reliably and consistently killing cancer. " CobaltCancer is a living cell and will die off eventually if it cannot spread. "It was a view that was hard for some cancer doctors and researchers to accept. But some of the skeptics have changed their minds and decided that, contrary as it seems to everything they had thought, cancers can disappear on their own." [14]"Notably, the opponent didn't present any evidence regarding how this treatment would help people who already have cancer. " CobaltSimply stopping the spread and/or slowing the disease helps a lot. There is plenty of testimonial evidence. [1][2] "We don't even have any evidence suggesting this treatment works on patients who already have cancer. " CobaltThere is copious amounts of anecdotal and testimonial evidence of people being cured on this diet. [1][2] There is also plenty of scientific evidence to show that various lifestyle activities raise or lower the risk factors for cancer. The only piece that is missing is lots of scientific evidence showing that people are cured of cancer via healthy lifestyle. Thanks for the debate.X. Sources12. http://www.cdc.gov...13. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...14. http://www.nytimes.com...