A. We study existence of nonnegative solutions to a nonlinear parabolic boundary value problem with a general singular lower order term and a nonnegative measure as nonhomogeneous datum, of the formwhere Ω is an open bounded subset of R N (N ≥ 2), 0 is a nonnegative integrable function, ∆ is the -laplace operator, µ is a nonnegative bounded Radon measure on Ω × (0 T ) and is a nonnegative function of L 1 (Ω × (0 T )). The term is a positive continuous function possibly blowing up at the origin. Furthermore, we show uniqueness of finite energy solutions in presence of a nonincreasing .