Patrick Dempsey unveiled a cancer centre in his name in Maine on Monday (10.02.08).
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The actor – who shot to fame playing Dr. Derek Shepherd in the hit US TV show Grey’s Anatomy – was inspired to launch The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing at the Central Maine Medical Center after his mother battled ovarian cancer.
He said: “For a family to get a cancer diagnosis is devastating, and all the information out there can be overwhelming. A lot of the websites I went to just didn’t have enough information.
“So I talked to my sister about a place where people could go for all this type of information and help. Knowledge is power.”
Patrick, whose character is nicknamed Dr. McDreamy on the show, will also take part in the centre’s education campaign about how to prevent and detect cancer.
His sister Mary, who currently works at the hospital, will run the centre. Patrick has a six-year-old daughter Tallulah and twin one-year-old sons Darby Galen and Sullivan Patrick with Jillian Fink, his wife of eight years.
