Subclassing NSOperation to be concurrent and cancellable

I am unable to find good documentation about how to subclass NSOperation to be concurrent and also to support cancellation. I read the Apple docs, but I am unable to find an "official" example.

Here is my source code :

@synthesize isExecuting = _isExecuting;
@synthesize isFinished = _isFinished;
@synthesize isCancelled = _isCancelled;

- (BOOL)isConcurrent
{
    return YES;
}

- (void)start
{
/* WHY SHOULD I PUT THIS ?
    if (![NSThread isMainThread])
    {
        [self performSelectorOnMainThread:@selector(start) withObject:nil waitUntilDone:NO];
        return;
    }
*/

    [self willChangeValueForKey:@"isExecuting"];
    _isExecuting = YES;
    [self didChangeValueForKey:@"isExecuting"];


    if (_isCancelled == YES)
    {
        NSLog(@"** OPERATION CANCELED **");
    }
    else
    {
        NSLog(@"Operation started.");
        sleep(1);
        [self finish];
    }
}

- (void)finish
{
    NSLog(@"operationfinished.");

    [self willChangeValueForKey:@"isExecuting"];
    [self willChangeValueForKey:@"isFinished"];

    _isExecuting = NO;
    _isFinished = YES;

    [self didChangeValueForKey:@"isExecuting"];
    [self didChangeValueForKey:@"isFinished"];

    if (_isCancelled == YES)
    {
        NSLog(@"** OPERATION CANCELED **");
    }
}

In the example I found, I don't understand why performSelectorOnMainThread: is used. It would prevent my operation from running concurrently.

Also, when I comment out that line, I get my operations running concurrently. However, the isCancelled flag is not modified, even though I have called cancelAllOperations.