diff --git a/src/ServerAPI.mjs b/src/ServerAPI.mjs
index b12a7cef..cf7467ef 100644
--- a/src/ServerAPI.mjs
+++ b/src/ServerAPI.mjs
@@ -5,13 +5,13 @@ export class ServerAPI extends APIInterface {
     constructor(apiUrl) {
         super();
         this.apiUrl = apiUrl;
-        this.fetchCanceler = new AbortController();
-        this.cancelSignal = this.fetchCanceler.signal;
     }
 
-    async getChunkedData(viewTarget) {
+    // Each function takes a cancelSignal to cancel the fetch request if we will unmount component
+
+    async getChunkedData(viewTarget, cancelSignal) {
         const json = await fetchAndParse(`${this.apiUrl}/getChunkedData`, {
-            signal: this.cancelSignal, // (so we can cancel the fetch request if we will unmount component)
+            signal: cancelSignal,
             method: "POST",
             headers: {
             "Content-Type": "application/json",
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ export class ServerAPI extends APIInterface {
         return json;
     }
 
-    async getFilenames() {
+    async getFilenames(cancelSignal) {
         const json = await fetchAndParse(`${this.apiUrl}/getFilenames`, {
-            signal: this.cancelSignal, // (so we can cancel the fetch request if we will unmount component)
+            signal: cancelSignal,
             method: "GET",
             headers: {
             "Content-Type": "application/json",
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ export class ServerAPI extends APIInterface {
         return json;
     }
 
-    async getBedRegions(bedFile) {
+    async getBedRegions(bedFile, cancelSignal) {
         const json = await fetchAndParse(`${this.apiUrl}/getBedRegions`, {
-            signal: this.cancelSignal, // (so we can cancel the fetch request if we will unmount component)
+            signal: cancelSignal,
             method: "POST",
             headers: {
             "Content-Type": "application/json",
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ export class ServerAPI extends APIInterface {
         return json;
     }
 
-    async getPathNames(graphFile) {
+    async getPathNames(graphFile, cancelSignal) {
         const json = await fetchAndParse(`${this.apiUrl}/getPathNames`, {
-            signal: this.cancelSignal, // (so we can cancel the fetch request if we will unmount component)
+            signal: cancelSignal,
             method: "POST",
             headers: {
             "Content-Type": "application/json",
@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@ export class ServerAPI extends APIInterface {
         return json
     }
 
-    async getChunkTracks(bedFile, chunk) {
+    async getChunkTracks(bedFile, chunk, cancelSignal) {
         const json = await fetchAndParse(`${this.apiUrl}/getChunkTracks`, {
+            signal: cancelSignal,
             method: "POST",
             headers: {
             "Content-Type": "application/json",
@@ -66,10 +67,6 @@ export class ServerAPI extends APIInterface {
         });
         return json;
     }
-
-    abortRequests() {
-        this.fetchCanceler.abort();
-    }
 }
 
 export default ServerAPI;
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diff --git a/src/components/HeaderForm.js b/src/components/HeaderForm.js
index a17c06cd..f52b2b7e 100644
--- a/src/components/HeaderForm.js
+++ b/src/components/HeaderForm.js
@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ function viewTargetsEqual(currViewTarget, nextViewTarget) {
 class HeaderForm extends Component {
   state = EMPTY_STATE;
   componentDidMount() {
-    this.fetchCanceled = false;
+    this.fetchCanceler = new AbortController();
+    this.cancelSignal = this.fetchCanceler.signal;
     this.api = this.props.APIInterface;
     this.initState();
     this.getMountedFilenames();
@@ -177,11 +178,10 @@ class HeaderForm extends Component {
   }
   componentWillUnmount() {
     // Cancel the requests since we may have long running requests pending.
-    this.api.abortRequests();
-    this.fetchCanceled = true;
+    this.fetchCanceler.abort();
   }
   handleFetchError(error, message) {
-    if (!this.fetchCanceled) {
+    if (!this.cancelSignal.aborted) {
       console.log(message, error.name, error.message);
       this.setState({ error: error });
     } else {
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ class HeaderForm extends Component {
   getMountedFilenames = async () => {
     this.setState({ error: null });
     try {
-      const json = await this.api.getFilenames();
+      const json = await this.api.getFilenames(this.cancelSignal);
       if (!json.files || json.files.length === 0) {
         // We did not get back a graph, only (possibly) an error.
         const error =
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ class HeaderForm extends Component {
   getBedRegions = async (bedFile) => {
     this.setState({ error: null });
     try {
-      const json = await this.api.getBedRegions(bedFile);
+      const json = await this.api.getBedRegions(bedFile, this.cancelSignal);
       // We need to do all our parsing here, if we expect the catch to catch errors.
       if (!json.bedRegions || !(json.bedRegions["desc"] instanceof Array)) {
         throw new Error(
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ class HeaderForm extends Component {
   getPathNames = async (graphFile) => {
     this.setState({ error: null });
     try {
-      const json = await this.api.getPathNames(graphFile);
+      const json = await this.api.getPathNames(graphFile, this.cancelSignal);
       // We need to do all our parsing here, if we expect the catch to catch errors.
       let pathNames = json.pathNames;
       if (!(pathNames instanceof Array)) {
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ class HeaderForm extends Component {
       console.log("New tracks have been applied");
     } else if (this.state.bedFile && chunk) {
       // Try to retrieve tracks from the server
-      const json = await this.api.getChunkTracks(this.state.bedFile, chunk);
+      const json = await this.api.getChunkTracks(this.state.bedFile, chunk, this.cancelSignal);
 
       // Replace tracks if request returns non-falsey value
       if (json.tracks) {
diff --git a/src/components/TubeMapContainer.js b/src/components/TubeMapContainer.js
index bc7b9877..49bf4f6c 100644
--- a/src/components/TubeMapContainer.js
+++ b/src/components/TubeMapContainer.js
@@ -17,19 +17,19 @@ class TubeMapContainer extends Component {
   };
 
   componentDidMount() {
-    this.fetchCanceled = false;
+    this.fetchCanceler = new AbortController();
+    this.cancelSignal = this.fetchCanceler.signal;
     this.api = this.props.APIInterface;
     this.getRemoteTubeMapData();
   }
 
   componentWillUnmount() {
     // Cancel the requests since we may have long running requests pending.
-    this.api.abortRequests();
-    this.fetchCanceled = true;
+    this.fetchCanceler.abort();
   }
 
   handleFetchError(error, message) {
-    if (!this.fetchCanceled) {
+    if (!this.cancelSignal.aborted) {
       console.error(message, error);
       this.setState({ error: error, isLoading: false });
     } else {
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ class TubeMapContainer extends Component {
   getRemoteTubeMapData = async () => {
     this.setState({ isLoading: true, error: null });
     try {
-      const json = await this.api.getChunkedData(this.props.viewTarget);
+      const json = await this.api.getChunkedData(this.props.viewTarget, this.cancelSignal);
       if (json.graph === undefined) {
         // We did not get back a graph, even if we didn't get an error either.
         const error = "Fetching remote data returned error";