Surgical Oncology Physician
2,396 active US providers register Surgical Oncology Physician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.03% of every provider in the registry, and the 269th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2086X0206X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Surgery
- Specialization
- Surgical Oncology
- Active providers
- 2,396
- States covered
- 50 of 51
What the code means
A surgical oncologist is a well-qualified surgeon who has obtained additional training and experience in the multidisciplinary approach to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of cancer patients, and devotes a major portion of his or her professional practice to these activities and cancer research.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| California | 297 | |
| New York | 252 | |
| Texas | 226 | |
| Florida | 178 | |
| Pennsylvania | 114 | |
| Maryland | 105 | |
| Ohio | 93 | |
| New Jersey | 88 | |
| Illinois | 78 | |
| Tennessee | 71 | |
| Massachusetts | 61 | |
| North Carolina | 58 | |
| Georgia | 56 | |
| Colorado | 50 | |
| Virginia | 48 |
Showing the 15 largest of 50 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,983 of these are people and 413 are organisations, so 17% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2008, and 158 registered in the last five years, 7% of the current population.
That is a slow-growing code, which usually means an established field replacing retirements rather than expanding.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- NEW YORK, NY112
- HOUSTON, TX73
- DALLAS, TX47
- LOS ANGELES, CA45
- CHICAGO, IL42
- BALTIMORE, MD41
- COLUMBUS, OH32
- BOSTON, MA32
- MIAMI, FL30
- PITTSBURGH, PA28
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Surgical Oncology Physician most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Surgery Physician | 1,137 | 47.5% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 181 | 7.6% |
| Specialist | 28 | 1.2% |
| Surgical Critical Care Physician | 14 | 0.6% |
| Orthopaedic Surgery Physician | 14 | 0.6% |
| Transplant Surgery Physician | 13 | 0.5% |
| Medical Oncology Physician | 12 | 0.5% |
| Urology Physician | 11 | 0.5% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Surgery.
- Surgical Critical Care Physician2,084
- Pediatric Surgery Physician1,708
- Trauma Surgery Physician1,636
- Surgery of the Hand (Surgery) Physician660
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Physician4,481
- Vascular Surgery Physician7,657
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.