In this paper the author considers a nonlinear evolution problem denoted in the paper as P. Problem (P) arises in the study of thermal evaporation of atoms and molecules from locally heated surface regions (spikes) invoked as one of several mechanisms of ion-bombardment-induced particle emission (sputtering). Then in the case of particle-induced evaporation, the Stefan-Boltzman law of heat loss by radiation is replaced by some activation law describing the loss of heat by evaporation. The equation in P is the so-called degenerate diffusion problem, which has been extensively studied in recent years. However, when dealing with the nonlinear flux boundary condition, {beta}({center_dot}) is usually assumed to be monotene. The purpose of this paper is to provide a general theory for problem P under a different assumption on {beta}({center_dot}), i.e., Lipschitz continuity instead of monotonicity. The main idea of the proof used here is to choose an appropriate test function from the corresponding linearized dual space of the solution. The similar idea has been used by many authors, e.g., Aronson, Crandall and Peletier, Bertsch and Hilhorst and Friedman. The author follows the proof of Bertsch and Hilhorst. The paper is organized as follows. They begin by stating the precise assumptions onmore » the functions involved in P and by defining a weak solution. Then, in Section 2 they prove the existence of the solution by the method of parabolic regularization. The uniqueness is proved in Section 3. Finally, they study the large time behavior of the solution in Section 4.« less