Offered here is a personal letter from American western film icon John Wayne to one Mrs. Hellen A. Binard in which he discusses the treatment he underwent in order to overcome lung cancer. As the letter states, Wayne underwent surgery to remove a malignant tumor which also resulted in the removal of half of one of his lungs. He states his doctor advised him to get back to his normal everyday life as soon as he was able to. He credits the return to his normal life, despite pain, as being the reason he needed no further treatment. The letter is framed along with one of John Wayne's head shots and the envelope the letter came in. Affixed to the back of the frame is the letter which Wayne was responding to in which Binard asks what his doctors did differently in order to prevent him from succumbing to what was referred to at the time as "wholesale slaughter". Mrs. Binard goes on in the letter to ask Wayne to make an appearance on television with his doctor in order to help others by telling the world about what was done for his case. John Wayne would continue acting until 1976 when he starred in "The Shootist" where he played J. Brooks who was dying of cancer, which he would himself pass from three years later.