Michael Jackson had a cancerous lesion removed from his nose days before his June 25 death, biographer Diane Dimond and an unnamed family source tell Us Weekly.

“Last week, I had two real sources call me and say he’s getting surgery right now for removal of skin cancer off his nose,” Dimond said.

“This is not a man who suffers pain well. He likes painkillers. So he got some from here, he got some from there — who knows how much.”