LEWISTON — The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing at Central Maine Medical Center has launched a newly redesigned Web site – www.dempseycenter.org – aimed at providing visitors with interactive features and up-to-date information.

Interactive features include a blog where visitors are encouraged to share their comments and feelings on a variety of topics. A video library is located on the home page along with a cancer video atlas, which provides more than 50 videos on cancer related topics categorized by cancer type, diagnostic test, side effect and treatment. There are forms available for volunteer sign-up and “Profiles of Courage, Caring and Commitment” nomination.

Visitors are also encouraged to register for the center’s new e-Newsletter which will provide weekly updates on Dempsey Center news and offerings via e-mail.

Detailed information on the center’s support, education and wellness services along with staff and volunteer bios and various donation opportunities, financial and non-financial, are also available.

Founded in March of 2008 by actor and Maine native, Patrick Dempsey, The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing provides free support, education and wellness services to cancer patients, survivors and caregivers.