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Accordingly, CTCs have been attracting attention as a novel biomarker for early detection of cancer and monitoring of treatment responses. However, since patients typically have only a few CTCs per milliliter of blood, development of an accurate and highly sensitive CTC detection method is crucial. We previously developed a CTC detection method using a novel conditionally replicating adenovirus (Ad) that expresses green fluorescence protein (GFP) in a tumor cell-specific manner by expressing the E1 gene using a tumor-specific human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) promoter (rAdF35-142T-GFP). CTCs were efficiently detected using rAdF35-142T-GFP, but GFP expression levels in the CTCs and production efficiencies of rAdF35-142T-GFP were relatively low. In this study, in order to overcome these problems, we developed four types of novel GFP-expressing conditionally replicating Ads and examined their ability to visualize CTCs in the blood samples of lung cancer patients. 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