The exploratory meeting of the Gynaecological Cancer Collaborative Review Group (CGCCRG) was held in Oxford (UK) on June 6th and 7th 1996, and the subsequent application for registration with the Collaboration was approved on November 27th 1997.
Group meetings have been held on the following dates:

• February 1st 1997, at the Cancer Network meeting in Brussels, Belgium.
• October 9th 1997, at the 5th Cochrane Colloquium in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• January 23rd and 24th 1998, in Manchester, UK
• October 24th 1998, at the 6th Cochrane Colloquium in Baltimore, USA.
• January 29th and 30th 1999, in Derby, UK.
• May 12th 2000 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• April 5th 2001 in London, UK.
• November 14th 2001 a breakout session at the British Gynaecological Cancer Society's meeting in London, UK.
• October 25th 2005 Editorial Dinner at the 13th Cochrane Colloquium in Melbourne, Australia.
• October 25th 2006 Editorial Meeting at the 14th Cochrane Colloquium in Dublin, Ireland.
• October 21st 2007 15th Cochrane Colluium in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• October 5th 2008 16th Cochrane Collquium in Freiburg, Germany.
• October 14th 2009 17th Cochrane Collquium in Singapore.
• October 19th 2010 18th Cochrane Collquium in Colorado, USA.
• October 19th 2011 19th Cochrane Collquium in Madrid, Spain.

Meetings after the CGCRG were awarded a DOH Cochrane Programme Grant in April 2007:

• June 25th 2007 Birmingham, UK.
• September 25th 2007 at the King's Fund, London, UK.