C3 stands for three words Colorectal Cancer Coalition means imaging, tomographic computer.
CT technology computer simulation to generate the image, three-dimensional, which uses the possibility to examine all the colon and rectum with the least amount of invasion. In the study, ACRIN Sponsored by the Institute for the National Cancer (NCI), which is part of the Institute of National Health (NIH). more than 2,600 patient in the 15 spot of the world attended. This is the study of a few for comparing the accuracy CT with the new technology with colonoscopy conventional (standard). The results of the study on September 18, 2008 in study, New England Journal of Medicine publication).