Despite their well‐established role in lymphocyte and macrophage migration, elevated plasma levels of the 3 chemokines in the older patients of our cohort were not associated with increased immune infiltration in the tumor; actually, the opposite was true: MCP‐1 showed a striking inverse correlation with sTILs %, more specifically with T‐cell subsets expressing CD3, CD5, CD8 and FOXP3. Here, CD5 is linked to neoplasm.