BackgroundWorker.CancellationPending Property

// Abort the operation if the user has canceled.
// Note that a call to CancelAsync may have set 
// CancellationPending to true just after the
// last invocation of this method exits, so this 
// code will not have the opportunity to set the 
// DoWorkEventArgs.Cancel flag to true. This means
// that RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs.Cancelled will
// not be set to true in your RunWorkerCompleted
// event handler. This is a race condition.

if (worker.CancellationPending)
{   
    e.Cancel = true;
}
else
{   
    if (n < 2)
    {   
        result = 1;
    }
    else
    {   
        result = ComputeFibonacci(n - 1, worker, e) + 
                 ComputeFibonacci(n - 2, worker, e);
    }

    // Report progress as a percentage of the total task.
    int percentComplete = 
        (int)((float)n / (float)numberToCompute * 100);
    if (percentComplete > highestPercentageReached)
    {
        highestPercentageReached = percentComplete;
        worker.ReportProgress(percentComplete);
    }
}