Head and Neck Oncology

Dr. Brandon Bentz’s primary clinical practice focuses upon the diagnosis and treatment of head and neck cancers and their related problems.  Dr. Bentz’s clinical interest is the surgical management of head and neck tumors of the upper aerodigestive tract, skull base, thyroid/parathyroid, skin, and sarcomas. He is actively involved in clinical research exploring better ways to treat these tumors.  In particular, Dr. Bentz is examining the role of a mutation in BRAF in thyroid cancers, and how the dietary antioxidants carotenoids (i.e. lycopene, lutein, beta carotene) influence our risk of developing cancer.

Dr. Bentz is also a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator, having a significant basic science research interest in the biology of cancer cells, and in particular exploring the intricacies of nitric oxide biology in cancer development and progression.

More about Brandon Bentz, MD

Dr. Brandon Bentz is an assistant professor in the Division of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery of the Department of Surgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine.  Dr. Bentz received a dual Bachelor of Sciences degree in Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987.  After taking two years as a research technologist in the Department of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Surgery, he went on to receive hiss medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1993, and subsequently completed his residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Northwestern University Medical Center.  He then completed a fellowship in head and neck surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He joined the University of Utah faculty in 2002.