Elegantly handle task cancellation

Question

When using tasks for large/long running workloads that I need to be able to cancel I often use a template similar to this for the action the task executes:

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Answer 1

You could do something like this:

public void DoWork(CancellationToken cancelToken)
{
    try
    {
        //do work
        cancelToken.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
        //more work
    }
    catch (OperationCanceledException) when (cancelToken.IsCancellationRequested)
    {
        throw;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Log.Exception(ex);
        throw;
    }
}