NAMPT and neoplasm: Compared to the disease-free patients, the progressing patients had a significantly higher proportion of tissue visfatin > 50% (81.0%), stage III/IV (52.4%), grade 3 (33.3%), age ≥ 52 years (76.2%), tumor size ≥ 2 cm (81.0%), LN metastasis (71.4%), triple negative subtype (38.1%), and hormone therapy (71.4%).