2. Patients with symptomatic central nervous system involvement by melanoma either as brain metastasis by MRI or spinal cord compression. Patients with brain metastases are not eligible unless their disease can be resected, it is asymptomatic, not associated with cerebral edema, or they are clinically stable after radiation and off corticosteroid therapy for 4 weeks. No major surgery or RT within 21 days before starting of treatment.