The present invention relates to providing a reagent for cancer cell
detection or cancer diagnosis, a pharmaceutical composition for the
treatment of cancer, and a method of treating or preventing cancer in a
subject. Specifically, the present invention relates to a reagent for
cancer cell detection, comprising a recombinant virus where a replication
cassette comprising a promoter from human telomerase, an E1A gene, an
IRES sequence and an E1B gene in this order is integrated in E1 region of
the viral genome and a labeling cassette comprising a gene encoding a
labeling protein and a promoter capable of regulating the expression of
the gene encoding the labeling protein is integrated in E3 region of the
viral genome.