diff --git a/modules/vba_documents/app/sidekiq/vba_documents/upload_processor.rb b/modules/vba_documents/app/sidekiq/vba_documents/upload_processor.rb
index 43a35c36ffb..6909fec42f0 100644
--- a/modules/vba_documents/app/sidekiq/vba_documents/upload_processor.rb
+++ b/modules/vba_documents/app/sidekiq/vba_documents/upload_processor.rb
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ class UploadProcessor
     sidekiq_options unique_for: 30.days
 
     def perform(guid, caller_data, retries = 0)
-      return if cancelled?
-
       response = nil
       brt = Benchmark.realtime do
         # @retries variable used via the CentralMail::Utilities which is included via VBADocuments::UploadValidations
@@ -46,20 +44,6 @@ def perform(guid, caller_data, retries = 0)
       response&.success? ? true : false
     end
 
-    def cancelled?
-      Sidekiq.redis do |c|
-        if c.respond_to? :exists?
-          c.exists?("cancelled-#{jid}")
-        else
-          c.exists("cancelled-#{jid}")
-        end
-      end
-    end
-
-    def self.cancel!(jid)
-      Sidekiq.redis { |c| c.setex("cancelled-#{jid}", 86_400, 1) }
-    end
-
     private
 
     # rubocop:disable Metrics/MethodLength
diff --git a/modules/vba_documents/spec/sidekiq/upload_processor_spec.rb b/modules/vba_documents/spec/sidekiq/upload_processor_spec.rb
index c032d7aa89c..5c6294272eb 100644
--- a/modules/vba_documents/spec/sidekiq/upload_processor_spec.rb
+++ b/modules/vba_documents/spec/sidekiq/upload_processor_spec.rb
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@
   end
 
   before do
-    allow_any_instance_of(described_class).to receive(:cancelled?).and_return(false)
     allow_any_instance_of(Tempfile).to receive(:size).and_return(1) # must be > 0 or submission will error w/DOC107
     objstore = instance_double(VBADocuments::ObjectStore)
     version = instance_double(Aws::S3::ObjectVersion)