Android Back Button and Progress Dialog

I have an AsyncTask that shows a progressDialog whilst working (it calls runOnUiThread from within doInBackground to show the progress dialog).

Whilst its running I want to allow the use of the back button to cancel the operation; someone else has had this problem: BACK Button is not working ,while progressDialog is running

For what ever reason I can't reply to that thread, hence having to start another?! (Another question for another day)

I had the same idea as Sandy but this code is never called whilst the progressDialog is showing, why is this? I have implemented it inside my main activity class, does the progressDialog take the foreground focus away from my class temporarily?